Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:39:20 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Add a helper function in PCI IOV to get VF device |
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:05:25PM +0800, Frank Pan wrote: > Greetings, > > The motivation is make VF device visible to PF driver. PF driver > may need this to access VF's PCI configuration.
What is "VF" and "PF" here?
> Another use case is in sysfs symbolic linking. Some of VF's sysfs > entries are created by PF driver. For example, /sys/class/net/ethx/vfx > in Intel 82576 NIC driver. Makeing a symbolic link from VF's pci device > to this path also must be done in PF's driver.
No, the network core should create that symlink, not the driver, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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