[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_pmd_init_all: initialize non-PCI PMDs provided by EAL

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 03:23:27PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> 2014-04-10 10:41, John W. Linville:
> > These PMDs were being initialized by the EAL layer, but many apps were
> > relying on the return value of rte_pmd_init_all to indicate that
> > ethernet interfaces were available for use.  Move the initialization of
> > the non-PCI PMDs to this centralized function to have all of the PMDs
> > treated equally.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> 
> We are using constuctors to initialize these drivers. See the patches from 
> Olivier Matz.
> The function rte_pmd_init_all() should be removed.

So long as you make DPDK-based apps not die when only using non-PCI
(i.e. "virtual") PMDs, I'll be happy...

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