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SubjectRe: Add a helper function in PCI IOV to get VF device
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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