From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47EFC433E7 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C86120719 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728070AbgHaWSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:18:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34854 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726044AbgHaWSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:18:04 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (shards.monkeyblade.net [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:9]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3938AC061573 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:601:9f00:477::3d5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36F6211CE9DEC; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20200831.151757.1112716052657607181.davem@davemloft.net> To: kuba@kernel.org Cc: tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, drt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ljp@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cforno12@linux.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ibmvnic: Provide documentation for ACL sysfs files From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20200831150050.3cadde6c@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> References: <20200831131158.03ac2d86@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> <20200831150050.3cadde6c@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.8 on Emacs 26.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:00:50 -0700 > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:44:06 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote: >> On 8/31/20 3:11 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> > This seems similar to normal SR-IOV operation, but I've not heard of >> > use cases for them VM to know what its pvid is. Could you elaborate? >> It's provided for informational purposes. > > Seems like an information leak :S and since it's equivalent to the > standard SR-IOV functionality - we'd strongly prefer a common > interface for all use cases. sysfs won't be it. Jiri & Mellanox had > been working on something in devlink for quite some time. Agreed, Thomas please work with Jiri et al. so that you can provide this information using a standard facility. Thanks.