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

[Kevin Traynor]

On 05/06/2018 07:34 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi,

They don't appear to be on the branch? Maybe you have a private 'next'
branch or something in your workflow, but reporting in case something
still needs to be pushed.

thanks,
Kevin.

> 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(-)
>>>