Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in nova-core

From: John Hubbard
Date: Wed Oct 01 2025 - 20:55:47 EST


On 10/1/25 5:48 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>> On Oct 1, 2025, at 7:56 PM, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu Oct 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM CEST, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> On 10/1/25 4:47 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>>>>> On Oct 1, 2025, at 7:00 PM, John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/1/25 3:52 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu Oct 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM CEST, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/1/25 6:52 AM, Zhi Wang wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1.10.2025 13.32, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed Oct 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM CEST, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 9/30/25 5:29 PM, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-10-01 at 08:07 +1000, John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
>>>>>>> ...
>> If a driver does not support a certain device, it is not the user's
>> responsibility to prevent probing. Currently nova-core does not support VFs, so
>> it should never get probed for them in the first place.
>
> That works for me. If we are doing this, I would also suggest adding a detailed comment preceding the if statement,

The nova-core piece that decides this is not an if statement. It's
a const. It really is cleaner. :)

saying the reason for this is because the VFs share the same device IDs when in reality we have 2 different drivers that handle the different functions.
>

I've got it passing tests already, I'll add appropriate comments and post it
shortly, and let's see what you think.

thanks,
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John Hubbard