[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 00/17] Generic devargs parsing

[Jan Blunck]

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 07/07/2017 02:04, Gaetan Rivet:
>> In this patchset, the representation of devices in rte_devargs is made generic
>> to remove some dependencies of the EAL on specific buses implementations.
>> Following the device types being characterized by their bus, the DEVTYPE
>> flags are updated not to reference virtual / PCI devices anymore.
> [...]
>> Gaetan Rivet (16):
>>   net/bonding: properly reference PCI header
>>   net/bnxt: properly reference PCI header
>>   net/mlx5: properly reference PCI header
>>   net/e1000: properly reference PCI header
>>   net/ixgbe: properly reference PCI header
>>   net/sfc: properly reference PCI header
>>   app/testpmd: properly reference PCI header
>>   test: properly reference PCI header
>>   dev: device kernel module is a device attribute
>>   bus: introduce bus scan policies
>>   devargs: parse bus policies
>>   devargs: generic device representation
>>   net/virtio: do not reference device type
>>   devargs: generic device types
>>   devargs: introduce cleaner parsing helper
>>   eal: change whitelist / blacklist command line doc
>>
>> Thomas Monjalon (1):
>>   examples/ethtool: properly reference PCI header
>
> Series applied, except last patch (17), as explained before. Thanks
>

I wonder why you complain about not having enough reviewers if you
anyway ignoring their feedback!

I pointed out multiple times that parsing a device name to deduce the
bus is not the right thing to do. This series also tightly couples
rte_devargs to rte_bus. It adds hidden functionality to have
blacklist/whitelist mode for all busses and even sticks that
functionality on the wrong object (devargs).