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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: "Zhao\, Yu" <yu.zhao@intel.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4 v2] PCI: support ARI capability
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:50:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada3akjj268.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080901152734.GC16796@ldl.fc.hp.com> (Alex Chiang's message of "Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:27:34 -0600")

 > > +config PCI_ARI
 > > +	bool "PCI ARI support"
 > > +	depends on PCI
 > > +	default n
 > > +	help
 > > +	  This enables PCI Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation.
 > 
 > This Kconfig help text is a little weak. Why not include the text
 > you've already written here:
 > 
 > 	Support Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI), which
 > 	increases the number of functions that can be supported by a PCIe
 > 	endpoint. ARI is required by SR-IOV.

I agree with this improvement to the help text.  But a further question
is whether ARI even merits its own user-visible config option.  Is it
worth having yet another choice for users?  When would someone want ARI
but not SR-IOV?

 - R.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-01 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01 11:20 [PATCH 2/4 v2] PCI: support ARI capability Zhao, Yu
2008-09-01 15:27 ` Alex Chiang
2008-09-01 15:50   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-09-10  7:48     ` Zhao, Yu
2008-09-10 18:42       ` Roland Dreier
2008-09-10 20:07       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-10  7:35   ` Zhao, Yu

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