[PATCH V2 15/15] hyperv: Add a function to detect if the device is a vmbus dev

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Dec 6 10:54:04 UTC 2016


On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:34:42PM -0800, kys at exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
> 
> On Hyper-V, every VF interface has a corresponding synthetic
> interface managed by netvsc that share the same MAC
> address. netvsc registers for netdev events to manage this
> association. Currently we use the MAC address to manage this
> association but going forward, we want to use a serial number that
> the host publishes. To do this we need functionality similar
> to dev_is_pci() for the vmbus devices. Implement such a function.
> 
> This function will be used in subsequent patches to netvsc and in the
> interest of eliminating cross tree dependencies, this patch is being
> submitted first.

As I stated before, I want to see those patches before I will take this
one...

thanks,

greg k-h


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