[dpdk-dev] kernel binding of devices + hotplug

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:11:01 -0300
Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 01:48:36AM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > My vote is to work with udev and not try to replace it.
> > 
> > Driverctl works well. Just not for bifurcated driver  
> 
> I second that.  We also have other system configs to care about like
> kernel parameters and hugepage configuration which I think follow the
> same idea that they are system wide configs and should not be managed
> by DPDK itself.

Maybe teach driverctl (and udev) to handle bifurcated drivers.
Unfortunately, vendors are very fractured on how network devices are managed.