[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 02/16] net/mrvl: add mrvl net pmd driver skeleton

Vincent JARDIN vincent.jardin at 6wind.com
Thu Oct 12 15:57:31 CEST 2017


Le 12/10/2017 à 14:14, Jacek Siuda a écrit :
> 
> What we can do, is to add a run-time driver option and oblige user (in 
> documentation) to set the option only for the first mrvl vdev. If the 
> driver doesn't see the option set, it  won't initialize DMA. This, plus 
> meaningful error handling/logs should take care of any potential 
> mishandling by user that we were afraid of. I hope that would be more 
> acceptable.

Yes, it does. And it already matches the current design in fact since 
the return error can be EEXIST and it is ignored.

thank you,
   Vincent


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