From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 02/15] net/mlx5: Set software owner ID during init HCA Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:10:16 -0700 Message-ID: <20171227181016.GG31310@mellanox.com> References: <20171224125741.25464-1-leon@kernel.org> <20171224125741.25464-3-leon@kernel.org> <20171227175208.GD31310@mellanox.com> <37588052-e7cd-b2ad-b2e0-91e03a9401d1@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <37588052-e7cd-b2ad-b2e0-91e03a9401d1-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Daniel Jurgens Cc: Or Gerlitz , Doug Ledford , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Parav Pandit , Saeed Mahameed , Leon Romanovsky List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:06:53PM -0600, Daniel Jurgens wrote: > > Not entirely sure why this is being done at all, shouldn't the PCI > > functions be rather un-ambiguous? > It's to prevent binding a device as a slave port if it's passed > through to a different VM. Okay. The commit message should discuss the failure mode that the change is trying to prevent. (ie the 'why') Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html