Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:43:22 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
       Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
       Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
       Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: remove pcibios_scan_all_fns()
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* Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx) wrote:
> I'd like to know what the KVM / Xen / ... people think about this.
> I don't know if they rely on function 5 being able to show up out of
> the blue.

KVM does not rely on this.  Typically a multi-function device's BDF gets
remapped between host and guest (usually becoming a single function,
function 0).

thanks,
-chris
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