[pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 09:59:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I still struggle to understand why we need this "unmanaged"
> complication and how a user of the sysfs API is expected to have any
> idea whether a PF is managed or unmanaged and why they should care.
> Can't we just have a pci_simple_sriov_configure() helper and ignore
> this unmanaged business?  Thanks,

Just a pci_simple_sriov_configure is exactly what I envisioned originally.