On Wed, 30 May 2018 20:03:11 -0700
"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/2018 7:06 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2018 09:55:14 -0700
> > Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic
> >> failover infrastructure.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com>
> > Why was this merged? It was never signed off by any of the netvsc
> > maintainers,
> > and there were still issues unresolved.
> >
> > There are also namespaces issues I am fixing and this breaks them.
> > Will start my patch set with a revert for this. Sorry
>
> I would appreciate if you can make the fixes on top of this patch series. I
> tried hard
> to make sure that netvsc functionality and behavior doesn't change.
>
> It is possible that there could be some bugs introduced, but they can be
> fixed.
> Looks like Wei already found a bug and submitted a fix for that.
>
Ok, but several of these may clash with what you want for virtio.
Like:
- VF should be moved to namespace of virt device
- VF should be associated based on message from host with serial # not
registration notifier and MAC address.
- control operations should use master device reference rather than
searching based on MAC.
As you can see these are structural changes.
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