From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: RFC: rtnetlink problems with Cisco enic and VFs Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:16:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140422.211642.1908374698598409144.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140423092606.c73425b64d127b8f94469fcb@redhat.com> <20140422170438.00006b45@unknown> <20140423111203.3e8cf3a9a12acb1d95b3635a@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 To: dgibson@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44834 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750705AbaDWBQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:16:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140423111203.3e8cf3a9a12acb1d95b3635a@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: David Gibson 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.