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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 1/3] net: add ndo to get id of physical port
 of the device
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:53:14 +0200
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Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:29:50PM CEST, Narendra_K@Dell.com wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:32:30AM +0530, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> 
>> Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:26:32PM CEST, or.gerlitz@gmail.com wrote:
>> >On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This patch adds a ndo for getting physical port of the device. Driver
>> >> which is aware of being virtual function of some physical port should
>> >> implement this ndo.
>> >
>> >
>> >Do you mean virtual function literally?  that is in the PCI IOV aspect?
>> 
>> This is applicable not only for IOV, nbut for other solutions (NPAR,
>> multichannel) as well. Basically if there is possible to have multiple
>> netdevs on the single hw port.
>
>I think it would be useful to include this information in the commit
>message.

ok. I will resend the patchset soon.

>
>-- 
>With regards,
>Narendra K
>Linux Engineering
>Dell Inc.