Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] be2net: use common method to check for sriov function type

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:14:01 +0100

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 23:08 -0500, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> Lancer and BE can both use SLI_INTF_REG to check a VF or a PF.
[...]

This seems pretty unreliable (both in the previous and the current
version).  You cannot rely on the whole of PCI config space being mapped
to a VM guest.  KVM certainly didn't do this when I used PCI pass-
through.

Ben.

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