[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] nfp: support non-root user for the Netronome

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 13:25 +0100, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> This fixes can not be applied to master because that code was changed
> and
> it is not there anymore.
> 
> So it these fixes are going to be applied just to stable versions.

Ok, makese sense, thanks. Will push to 18.02.2 with the next batch.

> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2018-05-01 at 11:36 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 13:20 -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> > > > Even when trying to use the Netronome cards via VFIO, there is
> > > > a
> > > > lock file being requested, which requires root access.  This
> > > > series
> > > > fixes an issue with the nfp driver lock release always
> > > > releasing
> > > > 'nfp0' (which isn't a bug in practice for other reasons) as
> > > > well
> > > > as allowing the lock file location to be configured by the
> > > > application
> > > > or user via the HOME environment variable (similar to other
> > > > resources
> > > > in the DPDK framework).
> > > > 
> > > > This series is only applicable to the stable tree because the
> > > > nfp
> > > > driver is completely rewritten for later versions of DPDK.
> > > > 
> > > > Aaron Conole (2):
> > > >   nfp: unlink the appropriate lock file
> > > >   nfp: allow for non-root user
> > > > 
> > > >  drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> > > >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Series applied to 18.02, thanks.
> > 
> > I just noticed this is not in dpdk/master yet, is it scheduled for
> > a
> > later release?
> > 
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> > 

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi