Re: [PATCH 15/16 v6] PCI: document the SR-IOV sysfs entries

["Zhao, Yu" <yu.zhao@intel.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:33:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:45:15PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote:
>>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
>>> index ceddcff..41cce8f 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
>>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
>>> @@ -9,3 +9,36 @@ Description:
>>>  		that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
>>>  		underlying VPD has a writable section then the
>>>  		corresponding section of this file will be writable.
>>> +
>>> +What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../iov/enable
>> Are you sure this is still the correct location with your change to
>> struct device?
> 
> Nevermind, this is correct.
> 
> But the bigger problem is that userspace doesn't know when these
> attributes show up.  So tools like udev and HAL and others can't look
> for them as they never get notified, and they don't even know if they
> should be looking for them or not.
> 
> Is there any way to tie these attributes to the "main" pci device so
> that they get created before the device is announced to the world?
> Doing that would solve this issue.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Currently PCI subsystem has /sys/.../{vendor,device,...} bundled to the 
main PCI device (I suppose this means the entries are created by 
'device_add')

And after the PCI device is announced, 
/sys/.../{config,resourceX,rom,vpd,iov,...} get created depending on if 
these features are supported.

Making dynamic entries tie to the main PCI device would require PCI 
subsystem to allocate different 'bus_type' for the devices, right?

Regards,
Yu