[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/42] eal: parse "driver" device argument before probing drivers

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/11/2017 4:44 PM, Gaetan Rivet wrote:
> From: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
> 
> In some cases the virtual device name should be totally different than
> the driver being used for the device. Therefore lets parse the devargs for
> the "driver" argument before probing drivers in vdev_probe_all_drivers().

Hi Gaetan, Jan,

I have caught this while checking something else.

This patch adds an alternative way for virtual devices to get probed
when device name is not proper.

This probing can be done by having "driver=<driver_name>" in device
argument (not in name).

Do we really need this alternative method, as far as I can see only user
of this is a unit test for bonding?

This method is a little hidden/undocumented and a hack solution, I think
it is better and easier to fix virtual device names in unit test and
remove this, what do you think?

Thanks,
ferruh

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> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
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