From: <Narendra_K@Dell.com>
To: <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<davem@davemloft.net>, <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
<bhutchings@solarflare.com>, <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 1/3] net: add ndo to get id of physical port of the device
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:29:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722112921.GA4511@fedora18-dev.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130721210230.GA1558@minipsycho.orion>
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:32:30AM +0530, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
> Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:26:32PM CEST, or.gerlitz@gmail.com wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> This patch adds a ndo for getting physical port of the device. Driver
> >> which is aware of being virtual function of some physical port should
> >> implement this ndo.
> >
> >
> >Do you mean virtual function literally? that is in the PCI IOV aspect?
>
> This is applicable not only for IOV, nbut for other solutions (NPAR,
> multichannel) as well. Basically if there is possible to have multiple
> netdevs on the single hw port.
I think it would be useful to include this information in the commit
message.
--
With regards,
Narendra K
Linux Engineering
Dell Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-22 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-20 17:53 [patch net-next v2 0/3] export device physical port id to userspace Jiri Pirko
2013-07-20 17:53 ` [patch net-next v2 1/3] net: add ndo to get id of physical port of the device Jiri Pirko
2013-07-21 11:10 ` Or Gerlitz
2013-07-21 15:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-21 15:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-21 20:26 ` Or Gerlitz
2013-07-21 21:02 ` Jiri Pirko
2013-07-22 11:29 ` Narendra_K [this message]
2013-07-22 11:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2013-07-22 15:52 ` Or Gerlitz
2013-07-20 17:53 ` [patch net-next v2 2/3] rtnl: export physical port id via RT netlink Jiri Pirko
2013-07-21 15:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-22 11:50 ` Narendra_K
2013-07-20 17:53 ` [patch net-next v2 3/3] net: export physical port id via sysfs Jiri Pirko
2013-07-21 15:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-22 11:54 ` Narendra_K
2013-07-21 5:59 ` [patch net-next v2 0/3] export device physical port id to userspace Or Gerlitz
2013-07-21 7:26 ` Jiri Pirko
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