Re: [pci PATCH v5 3/4] ena: Migrate over to unmanaged SR-IOV support

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 04:45:39 EST




On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 09:16 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:12:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > I'd also *really* like to see a way to enable this for PFs which don't
> > have (and don't need) a driver. We seem to have lost that along the
> > way.
> We've been forth and back on that.ÂÂI agree that not having any driver
> just seems dangerous.ÂÂIf your PF really does nothing we should just
> have a trivial pf_stub driver that does nothing but wiring up
> pci_sriov_configure_simple.ÂÂWe can then add PCI IDs to it either
> statically, or using the dynamic ids mechanism.

Or just add it to the existing pci-stub. What's the point in having a
new driver?Â

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