From: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio•com>
To: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat•com>
Cc: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel•com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
shemminger@vyatta•com, andy@greyhouse•net, harald@redhat•com,
bhutchings@solarflare•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, gospo@redhat•com, "Duyck,
Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:35:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007230935.59010.leedom@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C494DEE.3010101@redhat.com>
| From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat•com>
| Date: Friday, July 23, 2010 01:08 am
|
| On 23.07.2010 02:26, Casey Leedom wrote:
| > Or you simply don't have the VF Driver loaded in the "Domain 0" Control
| > OS. When we install the cxgb4 PF Driver with "num_vf=..." this enables
| > the PCI-E SR-IOV Capabilities within the various PFs and the
| > corresponding VF PCI Devices are instantiated and discovered by the
| > Domain 0 Linux OS. But without a cxgb4vf VF Driver loaded, those
| > devices just sit there available for "Device Assignment" to VMs.
|
| Just out of curiosity, how do you prevent the VF driver from getting
| loaded in the host? Except from blacklisting it.
I don't install them. :-)
I'm actually fairly unfamiliar with the details of managing/administering
Linux systems so I'm guessing that there are much better ways of controlling for
which devices a Linux system will attempt to load drivers. For instance, I
didn't know about the concept of "blacklisting" a driver.
Casey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 10:50 [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 11:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-20 11:47 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 11:58 ` Alex Badea
2010-07-20 12:17 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 20:18 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 8:10 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-21 13:54 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-22 12:50 ` [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment type Stefan Assmann
2010-07-22 14:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-22 14:47 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-25 3:50 ` David Miller
2010-07-20 12:07 ` [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address Ben Hutchings
2010-07-20 12:41 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 14:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-20 20:17 ` David Miller
2010-07-20 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-20 21:20 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 6:26 ` Harald Hoyer
2010-07-21 6:34 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 6:47 ` Harald Hoyer
2010-07-21 15:07 ` Andy Gospodarek
2010-07-21 16:34 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-21 17:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-21 17:32 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 18:29 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-21 18:39 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 19:25 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-21 18:43 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-07-21 18:48 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 18:50 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 19:02 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-07-21 19:33 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 19:35 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-07-22 7:12 ` Ian Campbell
2010-07-22 6:53 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-23 0:26 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-23 8:08 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-23 16:35 ` Casey Leedom [this message]
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