[PATCH V1] nvme-pci: disable SR-IOV VFs on driver unbind
Jakub Kicinski
kuba at kernel.org
Tue Jan 27 15:43:53 PST 2026
On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:09:12 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > If this is expected, should the warn message "driver left SR-IOV
> > > enabled after remove" be downgraded to 'info' level?
> >
> > It is not important, no one complained about it. People who unbind
> > PF, simply ignore this warning.
> >
> > BTW, the use case which I presented is for SR-IOV handled by
> > drivers. Maybe VFs created by NVMe are different here and they must
> > be destroyed.
>
> If it's to be expected, I do think 'info' would be more appropriate,
> if nothing else as an indication to code readers that nothing is
> wrong. Or maybe even no message at all. Or maybe the fact that we
> reset the driver_max_VFs value is of more interest.
FWIW I probably just added that message because most drivers end up
printing something along those lines. Tho, I strongly suspect it's
a mindless copy/paste in majority of the cases. No preference here.
More information about the Linux-nvme
mailing list