[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 02/11] linuxapp: eal: arm: Always return 0 for rte_eal_iopl_init()

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Thu Jan 21 10:41:31 CET 2016


Hello Santosh,

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com> wrote:
> iopl() syscall not supported in linux-arm/arm64 so always return 0 value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>
> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

I suppose when we will have more arches, this can be rewritten so that
iopl() check is only applied to x86 and all other arches get a 0
return.

How about such commit title ?
"eal/linux: never check iopl for arm"


Regards,
-- 
David Marchand


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