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Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:44:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ibmvnic: Provide documentation for ACL sysfs files To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, drt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ljp@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cforno12@linux.ibm.com References: <1598893093-14280-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com> <1598893093-14280-6-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com> <20200831122653.5bdef2f4@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> <20200831131158.03ac2d86@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> From: Thomas Falcon Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:44:06 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200831131158.03ac2d86@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.235,18.0.687 definitions=2020-08-31_10:2020-08-31,2020-08-31 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 clxscore=1015 priorityscore=1501 bulkscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 suspectscore=0 adultscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 lowpriorityscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2006250000 definitions=main-2008310124 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 8/31/20 3:11 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:54:06 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote: >> On 8/31/20 2:26 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >>> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:58:13 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote: >>>> Provide documentation for ibmvnic device Access Control List >>>> files. >>> What API is used to set those parameters in the first place? >>> >> These parameters are specified in the system's IBM Hardware Management >> Console (HMC) when the VNIC device is create. > The new attributes are visible in the "guest" OS, correct? Correct. > > 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.