Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device
Date	2016-12-02 17:10 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:38:51PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 11:36 PM
> > To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
> > olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com; vkuznets@redhat.com;
> > jasowang@redhat.com; leann.ogasawara@canonical.com; Haiyang Zhang
> > <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:14:03AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > In other words, why do you need this and PCI or USB doesn't?  Why is
> > > > hyperv "special"?
> > >
> > > On Hyper-V, each VF interface (SR-IOV interface)
> > > is paired with an instance of the
> > > synthetic interface that is managed by netvsc.
> > > When the VF interface comes up, we
> > > need to associate the VF instance with
> > > the corresponding netvsc instance. To do this
> > > without modifying the VF drivers, netvsc registers
> > > for netdev events.
> > 
> > Why not modify the VF drivers?  You have the full source to them...
> Greg,
> 
> This is even worse. On Linux, VF drivers are hypervisor agnostic
> and I want to keep it that way.

Ok, I really don't know what to suggest, other than this is probably not
the way to do this as no other bus has to.  As I don't see the code that
actually uses this anywhere, it's really impossible to have this
conversation at all :(

greg k-h

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[PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device kys@exchange.microsoft.com - 2016-12-01 16:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-01 21:40 +0100
    RE: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-12-02 06:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-01 21:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-01 21:50 +0100
    RE: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-12-02 07:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-02 07:50 +0100
        RE: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-12-02 08:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-02 08:40 +0100
            RE: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-12-02 16:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-02 17:10 +0100
                RE: [PATCH 02/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect hv_device KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-12-02 22:50 +0100

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