[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pmd: change initialization to indicate pci drivers

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Fri Jun 12 11:13:52 CEST 2015


2015-05-29 08:47, Stephen Hemminger:
> Upcoming drivers will need to be able to support other bus types.
> This is a transparent change to how struct eth_driver is initialized.
> It has not function or ABI layout impact, but makes adding a later
> bus type (Xen, Hyper-V, ...) much easier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stpehen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

There is a (fixed) typo in this line. Please use --signoff.

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

Applied, thanks

Next step would be to avoid this strange assumption:
struct eth_driver {
    struct rte_pci_driver pci_drv;    /**< The PMD is also a PCI driver. */


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