Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761138Ab0FRRSx (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:18:53 -0400 Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:44614 "HELO cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757794Ab0FRRSv (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:18:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=n+yRWK1HSIS99sbfMNEIi99pxzQn79rxz9mCT1J+DF0ne8cqYeI9GMXGkzThtxN72K2wcApsb9zgXPTQ/myWTc2DYCtU2+yq29qGU7+vf91mizw4GO5jdDut3Od6liTi; Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:17:14 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: Frank Pan Cc: Andrew Morton , Kenji Kaneshige , Yu Zhao , Chris Wright , Mitch Williams , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "David S. Miller" , Matt Carlson , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add a helper function in PCI IOV to get VF device Message-ID: <20100618101714.15146089@virtuousgeek.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20100608143514.740f8095@virtuousgeek.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.110.194.140 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1076 Lines: 28 On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:42:12 +0800 Frank Pan wrote: > > 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. I think once we see the driver usage it'll be easier to say. Chris is the one you'll need to convince though. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/