Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:34:51 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] PCI: Make sriov work with hotplug remove | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote: >> >> Maybe we can put VF and PF in bus->devices like: >> VF come first than PF? > > Ugh. Ok, so that's a disgusting hack, but it's better than messing up > the generic PCI subsystem. At least it's a disgusting hack in the IOV > code.
just tested, the patch with this hack works.
> > I still would prefer to just do the virtual devices right instead. Or > even just make the removal loop inherently robust, rather than have > that insane knowledge of virtual function devices that were done so > horribly wrong.
ok, let me think about it more.
> > Or even just *keep* the virtual devices on the list even though the > physical device has been removed - make them independent of the > physical device.
ah, not sure how this going to work.
Yinghai
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