[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix missing driver name

Jianfeng Tan jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Wed Jan 18 12:44:09 CET 2017


API rte_eth_dev_info_get() fills driver name according to drv_name
of rte_eth_dev_data. But we have not fill such info in virtio_user.

We do not use the same one with virtio device as some applications
might depend on driver name to differetiate kinds of devices, such
as VPP.

Fixes: e9efa4d93821 ("net/virtio-user: add new virtual PCI driver")
CC: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
index c877968..110f6a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ virtio_user_eth_dev_alloc(const char *name)
 	hw->use_simple_rxtx = 0;
 	hw->virtio_user_dev = dev;
 	data->dev_private = hw;
+	data->drv_name = "virtio_user PMD";
 	data->numa_node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
 	data->kdrv = RTE_KDRV_NONE;
 	data->dev_flags = RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE;
-- 
2.7.4



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