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

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/10/2017 3:34 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> 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?

I am suggesting: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/24196/

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