[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix issues with VFIO

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:07:17PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> This patchset fixes an issue with VFIO where DPDK initialization could
> fail even if the user didn't want to use VFIO in the first place. Also,
> more verbose and descriptive error messages were added to VFIO code, for
> example distinguishing between a failed ioctl() call and an unsupported
> VFIO API version.
> 
> Anatoly Burakov (2):
>   vfio: open VFIO container at startup rather than during init
>   vfio: more verbose error messages
> 

You still need a changelog entry with each patch (the cover letter doesn't get
included with the patches in git).  You also probably want to mention that the
second patch also fixes a case in which syscall errors are erroneously treated
as a success case

Neil

>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_vfio.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
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> 1.8.1.4
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