From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 08:59:07 +0100
Subject: [pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2018@09:59:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I still struggle to understand why we need this "unmanaged"
> complication and how a user of the sysfs API is expected to have any
> idea whether a PF is managed or unmanaged and why they should care.
> Can't we just have a pci_simple_sriov_configure() helper and ignore
> this unmanaged business?  Thanks,

Just a pci_simple_sriov_configure is exactly what I envisioned originally.