Re: [pci PATCH v6 5/5] pci-pf-stub: Add PF driver stub for PFs that function only to enable VFs

From: Alexander Duyck
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 11:31:34 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * pci_pf_stub_white_list - White list of devices to bind pci-pf-stub onto
>> + *
>> + * This table provides the list of IDs this driver is supposed to bind
>> + * onto. You could think of this as a list of "quirked" devices where we
>> + * are adding support for SR-IOV here since there are no other drivers
>> + * that they would be running under.
>> + *
>> + * Layout of the table below is as follows:
>> + * { Vendor ID, Device ID,
>> + * SubVendor ID, SubDevice ID,
>> + * Class, Class Mask,
>> + * private data (not used) }
>> + */
>
> No need to document the PCI device table format in a random driver.

I realize this probably isn't necessary, but I wanted to document it
to make it clear in terms of layout so that it is't confused with the
quirk structure layout since this has been referred to as a "quirk"
driver a few times.

> Otherwise looks fine:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>