Subject: Re: [RFC 01/20] ice: Initialize and register multi-function device to provide RDMA

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:13:20 +0200

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:39:22PM +0000, Nguyen, Anthony L wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 20:05 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 09:45:00AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > From: Tony Nguyen <[email-masked]>
> > > 
> > > The RDMA block does not advertise on the PCI bus or any other bus.
> > 
> > Huh?  How do you "know" where it is then?  Isn't is usually assigned
> > to
> > a PCI device?
> 
> The RDMA block does not have its own PCI function so it must register
> and interact with the ice driver.  

So the "ice driver" is the real thing controlling the pci device?  How
does it "know" about the RDMA block?

thanks,

greg k-h