[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] net/ixgbe: move PCI device ids to the driver

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Wed Aug 10 14:07:03 CEST 2016


On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/2016 7:36 AM, David Marchand wrote:
>> The only thing that bothers me using this ("unsynchronised") internal
>> pci device list is that, if people were using the ethtool part of kni,
>> there would now be devices that won't be recognised anymore.
>> Is it intentional ?
>
> I am aware that the list changed, but wasn't sure about updating the
> list in drivers or not.
>
> If a device is not listed in driver's pci device id table, it may not be
> supported, so ethtool may give wrong output, or it may just be missing,
> this is hard to know without testing (although this was the case before
> this patch)
>
> Since it is easy to add new id, and we are at the beginning of the
> release, I was thinking if somebody reports KNI ethotool support is
> missing for a specific device, we can add it instead of adding all by
> default.

Ok for me and with this we can know if this ethtool part is used :-)


-- 
David Marchand


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