From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
"longli@linuxonhyperv.com" <longli@linuxonhyperv.com>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] hv_netvsc: Mark VF as slave before exposing it to user-mode
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:38:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231118093849.14e36043@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231115081406.1bd9a4ed@hermes.local>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:14:06 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Jakub is right that in an ideal world, this could all be managed by
> userspace. But the management of network devices in Linux is a
> dumpster fire! Every distro invents there own solution, last time
> I counted there were six different tools claiming to be the
> "one network device manager to rule them all". And that doesn't
> include all the custom scripts and vendor appliances.
To be clear, I thought Long Li was saying that the goal is work around
cases where VF is probed before netvsc. That seems like something that
can be prevented by the hypervisor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-18 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-08 22:56 [PATCH net-next v4] hv_netvsc: Mark VF as slave before exposing it to user-mode longli
2023-11-09 2:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-10 0:43 ` Long Li
2023-11-10 20:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-15 16:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-11-18 17:38 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-11-21 0:23 ` Long Li
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