[pci PATCH v6 5/5] pci-pf-stub: Add PF driver stub for PFs that function only to enable VFs

Alexander Duyck alexander.duyck at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 08:31:24 PDT 2018


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * pci_pf_stub_white_list - White list of devices to bind pci-pf-stub onto
>> + *
>> + * This table provides the list of IDs this driver is supposed to bind
>> + * onto. You could think of this as a list of "quirked" devices where we
>> + * are adding support for SR-IOV here since there are no other drivers
>> + * that they would be running under.
>> + *
>> + * Layout of the table below is as follows:
>> + * { Vendor ID, Device ID,
>> + *   SubVendor ID, SubDevice ID,
>> + *   Class, Class Mask,
>> + *   private data (not used) }
>> + */
>
> No need to document the PCI device table format in a random driver.

I realize this probably isn't necessary, but I wanted to document it
to make it clear in terms of layout so that it is't confused with the
quirk structure layout since this has been referred to as a "quirk"
driver a few times.

> Otherwise looks fine:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>



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