From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dgibson@redhat.com
Cc: gregory.v.rose@intel.com, ben@decadent.org.uk,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, benve@cisco.com, ssujith@cisco.com,
govindarajulu90@gmail.com, neepatel@cisco.com,
nistrive@cisco.com
Subject: Re: RFC: rtnetlink problems with Cisco enic and VFs
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:16:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140422.211642.1908374698598409144.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423111203.3e8cf3a9a12acb1d95b3635a@redhat.com>
From: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:12:03 +1000
> And therein lies the problem. I don't even know what the IFLA_VF_PORTS
> info is for, but presumably something uses it. If they stop receiving
> it, they can be expected to break horribly.
We did the same thing to VFINFO list.
All the users I could find already set the mask unconditionally
for all device dumps.
It's absolutely, positively, the only reasonable fix for this
problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-22 4:14 RFC: rtnetlink problems with Cisco enic and VFs David Gibson
2014-04-22 4:17 ` David Gibson
2014-04-22 18:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-04-22 18:12 ` David Miller
2014-04-22 23:26 ` David Gibson
2014-04-23 0:04 ` Greg Rose
2014-04-23 1:12 ` David Gibson
2014-04-23 1:16 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-04-23 2:33 ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2014-04-23 4:15 ` David Gibson
2014-04-23 0:59 ` David Miller
2014-04-22 19:14 ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2014-04-22 23:24 ` David Gibson
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