[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/11] ethdev: add probing finish function

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Thu May 10 12:37:20 CEST 2018


On 05/10/2018 01:43 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new hook function is added and called inside the PMDs at the end
> of the device probing:
> 	- in primary process, after allocating, init and config
> 	- in secondary process, after attaching and local init
>
> This new function is almost empty for now.
> It will be used later to add some post-initialization processing.
>
> For the PMDs calling the helpers rte_eth_dev_create() or
> rte_eth_dev_pci_generic_probe(), the hook rte_eth_dev_probing_finish()
> is called from here, and not in the PMD itself.
>
> Note that the helper rte_eth_dev_create() could be used more,
> especially for vdevs, avoiding some code duplication in PMDs.
>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Why Cc?

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>


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