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From: Frank Pan <frankpzh@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:42:12 +0800
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Subject: Re: Add a helper function in PCI IOV to get VF device
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
       Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
       "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> Per the discussion in this thread it sounds like this really has
> nothing to do with sysfs and more to do with being a convenient API for
> drivers.
Yes.

> Is that correct?  If so, and assuming there's not some other way of
> getting this info from a driver, I'm ok with it, but it should be
> submitted as part of a patchset including driver code that uses it.
Yes, I may submit them all after the driver hack is complete. I put the
issue here to get response of some thing like, is this change possible?
or is there a better way to do it?

Thanks for reply.

-- 
Frank Pan

Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
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