From: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:17:33 +0100
> The idea for this was born when testing VF support in iproute2 which was > impeded by hardware requirements. In fact, not every VF-capable hardware > driver implements all netdev ops, so testing the interface is still hard > to do even with a well-sorted hardware shelf. > > To overcome this and allow for testing the user-kernel interface, this > patch allows to turn dummy into a PF with a configurable amount of VFs. > > Since my patch series 'bus-agnostic-num-vf' has been accepted, > implementing the required interfaces is pretty straightforward: Iff > 'num_vfs' module parameter was given a value >0, a dummy bus type is > being registered which implements the 'num_vf()' callback. Additionally, > a dummy parent device common to all dummy devices is registered which > sits on the above dummy bus. > > Joint work with Sabrina Dubroca. > > Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net> > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> Yeah this looks awesome, applied, thanks!
