Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/6] i40e: Add VF port representator support or SR-IOV VFs

From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 08:55:05 -0800

On 12/29/2016 6:53 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sridhar Samudrala <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 22:20:57 -0800
>
>> - Patch 1 introduces devlink interface to get/set the mode of SRIOV switch.
>> - Patch 2 adds support to create VF port representor(VFPR) netdevs associated
>>    with SR-IOV VFs that can be used to control/configure VFs from PF name space.
>> - Patch 3 enables syncing link state between VFs and VFPRs.
>> - Patch 4 adds a new type to metadata_dst to allow passing VF id to lower device.
>> - Patch 5 adds TX and RX support to VFPR netdevs.
>> - Patch 6 enables HW and SW VFPR statistics to be exposed via netlink on VFPR
>>    netdevs.
> Patch 4 did not show up on the lists.
I see it on intel-wired-lan list.  not sure why it didn't make it to netdev.
>
> The computer you did this work on is configured with a time in the future.
Will fix and send a v2 that will address other comments and include patch 4.