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

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 03:23:41PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> Ping Yuanhan - can you clarify question below? Also, can you let us know

Hi Kevin,

Sorry for being late: I just have very little time at weekends. I planned
to handle it last week, but I had to do something else.

And to your question: yes, they are not pushed yet: I should have done that
weeks ago though.

I will push them today.

> when you are planning further backports to 17.11 stable branch?

I just want to know do you expect something else to be released in 17.11.3?
If so, could you do a list, just for making sure I don't miss it.

	--yliu
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
> On 05/08/2018 10:23 AM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> > 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(-)
> >>>>
> >