[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: remove vdev probe by dev args

[Thomas Monjalon]

10/05/2017 13:01, Ferruh Yigit:
> Virtual device/driver probing done via name.
> 
> A new alternative method introduced to probe the device with providing
> driver name in devargs as "driver=<driver_name>".
> 
> This patch removes alternative method and fixes virtual device usages
> with proper device names.
> 
> Fixes: 87c3bf29c642 ("test: do not short-circuit null device creation")
> Fixes: d39670086a63 ("eal: parse driver argument before probing drivers")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> ---
[...]
>  static int
>  vdev_probe_all_drivers(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
>  {
>  	const char *name;
> -	char *drv_name;
>  	struct rte_vdev_driver *driver;
>  	int ret = 1;
>  
> -	drv_name = parse_driver_arg(rte_vdev_device_args(dev));
> -	name = drv_name ? drv_name : rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
> +	name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);

It seems you are reverting the commit d39670086a63:
    eal: parse driver argument before probing drivers
    
    In some cases the virtual device name should be totally different than
    the driver being used for the device. Therefore lets parse the devargs for
    the "driver" argument before probing drivers in vdev_probe_all_drivers().

Is this "driver" option useless?