From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ssujith@cisco.com,
benve@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] if_link: add client name to port profile
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 00:14:30 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1410052339550.5378@ws.cisco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141004200523.4fc102e3@urahara>
On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Maybe you could use the existing IFLA_IFALIAS?
> It is already supported by iproute tools and sysfs, and can be used by net-snmp as well.
> You would just be setting the default string, users could change it.
>
I do not think we can use ifalias here. Port profile is for SRIOV-VF
pci passthrough. vfio-pci will own the pci device and there would not be
net_device registeres for that interface on host. The client (libvirt)
unregisters the vf before binding it to vfio-pci.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-05 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 22:41 [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] enic: add support to send port-profile's client name to firmware Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2014-10-02 22:41 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] if_link: add client name to port profile Govindarajulu Varadarajan
2014-10-05 0:43 ` David Miller
2014-10-05 3:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-10-05 18:44 ` Govindarajulu Varadarajan [this message]
2014-10-02 22:41 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] enic: add vmname port-profile handler Govindarajulu Varadarajan
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