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

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 04/30/2018 06:20 PM, 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.
> > 
> 
> Hi Yuanhan, I think we would like to get this into the next 17.11 stable
> release if possible. Not sure when you are merging patches into the tree
> for it?

Hi,

I have just applied it to dpdk-stable/17.11. It will be part of 17.11.3
LTS release.

Thanks.

	--yliu
> 
> Kevin.
> 
> > 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(-)
> >