On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:45:19AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 09:16 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:12:52AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > > I'd also *really* like to see a way to enable this for PFs which don't > > > have (and don't need) a driver. We seem to have lost that along the > > > way. > > We've been forth and back on that. I agree that not having any driver > > just seems dangerous. If your PF really does nothing we should just > > have a trivial pf_stub driver that does nothing but wiring up > > pci_sriov_configure_simple. We can then add PCI IDs to it either > > statically, or using the dynamic ids mechanism. > > Or just add it to the existing pci-stub. What's the point in having a > new driver?
Because binding to pci-stub means that you'd now enable the simple SR-IOV for any device bound to PCI stub. Which often might be the wrong thing.
