[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pci: rename passthrough driver to kernel driver

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Wed Apr 1 07:23:17 CEST 2015


Hello Thomas,


On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
wrote:

> Kernel driver (kdrv) seems easier to understand than
> passthrough driver (pt_driver). It's also more generic
> as a PMD could run on top of any PCI kernel driver if
> it would offer such support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c     |  3 +--
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci.h | 12 ++++++------
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c   | 33
> ++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c           |  8 ++++----
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>

This looks ok for me.
I suppose you checked it builds fine on both linux and bsd ?

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com>

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David Marchand


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