[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add missing buses in dev iterator

[Thomas Monjalon]

04/05/2021 14:49, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 4/29/2021 9:01 AM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> > 
> > On 4/29/2021 1:26 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >> 29/04/2021 07:55, Hemant Agrawal:
> >>> This patch fixes issue with OVS 2.15 not working on
> >>> DPAA/FSLMC based platform due to missing support for
> >>> these busses in dev_iterate.
> >>> This patch adds dpaa_bus and fslmc to dev iterator
> >>> for bus arguments.
> >> I think we should add VMBus as well.
> > They are 2 buses remaining vmbus and ifpga. However I don't know, if they use
> > args as vdev or as pci?
> 
> cc Rosen for the 'ifpga' bus, 'vmbus' maintainer seems already cc'ed.
> 
> This variable ('bus_param_key') is used to construct 'bus_str', and 'bus_str'
> seems used only for the '.dev_iterate' bus operation.
> 
> Since 'ifpga' & 'vmbus' are not implementing the '.dev_iterate', so is it really
> required to add them?

Good point Ferruh.

The only bus implementing dev_iterate are dpaa, fslmc, pci and vdev.
So this patch makes sense.

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