[pci PATCH v5 3/4] ena: Migrate over to unmanaged SR-IOV support

[hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018@08:45:19AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> On Tue, 2018-03-13@09:16 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018@08:12:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd also *really* like to see a way to enable this for PFs which don't
> > > have (and don't need) a driver. We seem to have lost that along the
> > > way.
> > We've been forth and back on that.??I agree that not having any driver
> > just seems dangerous.??If your PF really does nothing we should just
> > have a trivial pf_stub driver that does nothing but wiring up
> > pci_sriov_configure_simple.??We can then add PCI IDs to it either
> > statically, or using the dynamic ids mechanism.
> 
> Or just add it to the existing pci-stub. What's the point in having a
> new driver??

Because binding to pci-stub means that you'd now enable the simple
SR-IOV for any device bound to PCI stub.  Which often might be the wrong
thing.