[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Sep 20 18:11:44 CEST 2018


19/09/2018 18:03, Gaetan Rivet:
> The vdev bus parses a field "driver", matching
> a vdev driver name with one passed as follows:
> 
>    "bus=vdev,driver=xxxx"

I think the property should be "name".
We already have a "driver" category.
So it may be "bus=vdev,name=mytap/driver=tap"

Until now we were using the name of the driver as a prefix for
the device name because it was the only way of knowing the driver to use.
With a richer syntax like above, this restriction can be removed.





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