Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Randy, can you wordsmith this one?

I'll try.

> I think I'm starting to understand the difference between physfn and
> dep_link, but an example would definitely help.  It may or may not be
> appropriate to put it in.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:54:47PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci 
>> b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
>> index ceddcff..84dc100 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
>> @@ -9,3 +9,30 @@ Description:
>>              that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
>>              underlying VPD has a writable section then the
>>              corresponding section of this file will be writable.
>> +
>> +What:               /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfn/N
>> +Date:               February 2009
>> +Contact:    Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
>> +Description:
>> +            This symbol link appears when hardware supports SR-IOV

                     symbolic                          supports the SR-IOV

>> +            capability and Physical Function driver has enabled it.

                               ^the | its | a

>> +            The symbol link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of

                    symbolic 

>> +            Virtual Function whose index is N (0...MaxVFs-1).

                the Virtual Function

>> +
>> +What:               /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfn/dep_link
>> +Date:               February 2009
>> +Contact:    Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
>> +Description:
>> +            This symbol link appears when hardware supports SR-IOV

                     symbolic                          supports the SR-IOV

>> +            capability and Physical Function driver has enabled it,

                               ^its | the | a

>> +            and this device has vendor specific dependencies with
>> +            others. The symbol link points to the PCI device sysfs

                            symbolic

>> +            entry of Physical Function this device depends on.
>> +
>> +What:               /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../physfn
>> +Date:               February 2009
>> +Contact:    Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
>> +Description:
>> +            This symbol link appears when a device is Virtual Function.

                     symbolic                          is a Virtual Function.

>> +            The symbol link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of

                    symbolic                                   entry of the

>> +            Physical Function this device associates with.

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