RE: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix vf serial matching with pci slot info

Haiyang Zhang [off-list ref] writes:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Haiyang Zhang <redacted>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:15 PM
To: davem@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; KY Srinivasan
[off-list ref]; Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref];
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Subject: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: fix vf serial matching with pci slot info

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>

The VF device's serial number is saved as a string in PCI slot's kobj name, not
the slot->number. This patch corrects the netvsc driver, so the VF device can be
successfully paired with synthetic NIC.

Fixes: 00d7ddba1143 ("hv_netvsc: pair VF based on serial number")
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>

Thanks Stephen for the reminder -- I added the "reported-by" here:

Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

Thanks) 

The difference in the hack I sent to Stephen was that instead of using
kstrtou32() and checking the return value I opted for snprintf() and
doing strncmp().

-- 
Vitaly