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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell•com>
Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom•com>,
	Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio•com>,
	Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom•com>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"narendra_k@dell•com" <narendra_k@dell•com>,
	"jordan_hargrave@dell•com" <jordan_hargrave@dell•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Add Nic partitioning mode (57712 devices)
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:21:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292793712.2874.13.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101219055731.GD5854@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>

On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 23:57 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:22:37PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:45 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:49:25PM +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> > In the case of sfc, each port has a separate PCI function.  We read this
> > register field to find out which port we're talking to, as
> > virtualisation can alter the function number.  I don't know about the
> > others.
> 
> For a single card then, this makes sense.
> 
> pci<slot>#<port>  where port = dev_id
> 
> If I have 2 such cards on a PCI extender though, I think this breaks.
> Here, I'd see duplicate dev_id values, yes?
> 
> Do you label the ports on your cards in any fashion?  Do they have
> labels like port 0, port 1, port 2, ... ?  Does it matter if we give
> names starting at 0, or starting at 1?  latest biosdevname starts them
> at 1, or uses whatever value BIOS actually provides, which on systems
> I've tried, all start at 1.
[...]

Currently they aren't labelled, so far as I can aware.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-19 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-28 22:09 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Add Nic partitioning mode (57712 devices) Dmitry Kravkov
2010-11-29  6:01 ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-29  9:33   ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-12-06 17:35     ` Matt Domsch
2010-12-06 18:21       ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-12-09 14:49         ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-12-17  2:45           ` Matt Domsch
2010-12-17 13:22             ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-19  5:57               ` Matt Domsch
2010-12-19 21:21                 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-12-17 23:13             ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-12-19  5:49               ` Matt Domsch
2010-12-20 19:44                 ` Dimitris Michailidis
2011-01-06 14:40                   ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-12-01 20:40 ` David Miller

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