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From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] ixgbe: Add new ndo to trust VF
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 18:04:27 +0100
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On 27/05/15 16:55, Rose, Gregory V wrote:
> There's nothing to prevent any vendor from notifying a VF that it has privileges and there's nothing that require that they do.  This should be a vendor specific detail.
Agreed - purely a driver implementation detail.
> So now that I've stated my preference let me also state that I do not want to hold up acceptance of the Hiroshi's if_link patch that sets the trusted/privileged state for the VF while we further discuss this driver specific detail.
Agreed.