[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] ethdev: replace bus specific struct with generic dev

[David Marchand]

Hello Ferruh,

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 5:29 PM, David Marchand
<david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
>> index 209796d46..68bdc3103 100644
>> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
>> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
>> @@ -2421,6 +2421,7 @@ rte_eth_dev_info_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_eth_dev_info *dev_info)
>>         memset(dev_info, 0, sizeof(struct rte_eth_dev_info));
>>         dev_info->rx_desc_lim = lim;
>>         dev_info->tx_desc_lim = lim;
>> +       dev_info->device = dev->device;
>>
>>         RTE_FUNC_PTR_OR_RET(*dev->dev_ops->dev_infos_get);
>>         (*dev->dev_ops->dev_infos_get)(dev, dev_info);
>
> Just a little comment, do we want the pmd to be able to override this ?

I still don't see when the pmd would need to override the dev_info->device.
The pmd is the one that populated dev->device in the first place.

Why would it want to report something different in dev_infos ?
Some comments from pmd maintainers, maybe ?


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David Marchand