On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:30:48PM +0300, Dmitrii Shcherbakov wrote:
Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Shcherbakov
<dmitrii.shcherbakov(a)canonical.com>
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NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++
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active. This information can also be retrieved with the new virsh command
``nodedev-info``.
+ * virpcivpd: Add a PCI VPD parser
+
+ A parser for the standard PCI/PCIe VPD ("I.3. VPD Definitions" in PCI
2.2+
+ and an equivalent definition in "6.28.1 VPD Format" PCIe 4.0) was added
+ along with relevant types to represent PCI VPD in memory. This
+ functionality got added for Linux only at this point (kernels above
+ v2.6.26 have support for exposing VPD via sysfs).
+
I think this is likely overkill. From a user pov I think it is sufficient
to just have the last news item in this series that mentions the new VPD
features reported against node devices.
Regards,
Daniel
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