On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Ananyev, Konstantin < konstantin.ananyev at intel.com> wrote:
> > If you don't want rx/tx, don't poll the port. > > Well, the question is why to add an extra restriction here? > Well, until I start a port, I would expect it to do nothing. Probably user deliberately doesn't want to call dev_start() for PF device - > as he doesn't plan to use it for RX/TX. > Or might be dev_stop() was called just to do some re-configuration > (allow to TX scattered packets on the PF queues or so). > Or dev_start() for PF has not yet been called. > Why VF should stop working properly because of that? > Why not. -- David Marchand
