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    seg6-sysctl
    skbuff
    smc-sysctl
+   sriov
    statistics
    strparser
    switchdev
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===============
+NIC SR-IOV APIs
+===============
+
+Modern NICs are strongly encouraged to focus on implementing the ``switchdev``
+model (see :ref:`switchdev`) to configure forwarding and security of SR-IOV
+functionality.
+
+Legacy API
+==========
+
+The old SR-IOV API is implemented in ``rtnetlink`` Netlink family as part of
+the ``RTM_GETLINK`` and ``RTM_SETLINK`` commands. On the driver side
+it consists of a number of ``ndo_set_vf_*`` and ``ndo_get_vf_*`` callbacks.
+
+Since the legacy APIs do not integrate well with the rest of the stack
+the API is considered frozen; no new functionality or extensions
+will be accepted. New drivers should not implement the uncommon callbacks;
+namely the following callbacks are off limits:
+
+ - ``ndo_get_vf_port``
+ - ``ndo_set_vf_port``
+ - ``ndo_set_vf_rss_query_en``