[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 2/2] librte_pmd_null: Support port hotplug function

Tetsuya Mukawa mukawa at igel.co.jp
Thu Feb 26 12:50:15 CET 2015


2015-02-26 19:57 GMT+09:00 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>:
> 2015-02-26 18:06, Tetsuya Mukawa:
>> 2015-02-26 16:03 GMT+09:00 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>:
>> > 2015-02-25 16:49, Stephen Hemminger:
>> >> Build fails if HOTPLUG is disabled
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> I appreciate for you reporting.
>>
>> >
>> > OK thanks for reporting.
>> > Actually there is no good reason to disable hotplug on Linux.
>> > Though it means that it's impossible to build on FreeBSD.
>> >
>> > Tetsuya, the right fix is to remove this option.
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Yes, I agree with it. I will add some codes to remove the option.
>> Please let me have a few days, I need to prepare BSD machine for compile test.
>>
>> > You should manage to graceful degrades hotplug in not supported
>> > cases supported: devices cannot be detachable in case of VFIO or nic_uio.
>> > What about uio_pci_generic?
>>
>> We cannot detach a vfio device so far. But we can detach a igb_uio and
>> uio_pci_generic device.
>> About a vfio ddevice, I haven't checked related code yet, but I guess
>> I will submit code to detach a vfio device in post-rc1.
>
> OK thanks.
> I made a quick fix (moving #ifdef) waiting the option removal:
>         http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=7609e6609350
>

Thank you so much for that.

Tetsuya,


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