[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] devbind: check for lspci

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Nov 13 17:03:49 CET 2018


On 07-Nov-18 4:01 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 11/7/2018 1:56 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
>> On some distributions (such as CentOS 7) lspci may not be installed
>> by default, causing exceptions which are difficult to interpret.
>>
>> Fix devbind script to check if lspci is installed at script startup.
> 
> I guess we need lspci for `--status`, bind/unbind can be done without `lspci`,
> what about adding check only display path?

This is actually incorrect. While we *use* the lspci output only on 
display paths, we actually gather info about devices using lspci in 
get_device_details(). So, i'll leave the code as is and just fix the 
package name for v2.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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