[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio: fix crash when device reconnecting

[Ye Xiaolong]

On 04/19, Liu, Yong wrote:
>Sorry for missed this question.   The purpose of change function is to skip device initialization which is not needed in configuration stage.
>When features not matched, can just do feature negotiation in configuration stage and do related actions when virtio device start.

Thanks for the explanation, then seems we needs to adjust the comment above accordingly.

Thanks,
Xiaolong
>
>Regards,
>Marvin
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 11:18 PM
>> To: Liu, Yong <yong.liu at intel.com>; Ye, Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
>> Cc: Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Ding, Xuan
>> <xuan.ding at intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/virtio: fix crash when device reconnecting
>> 
>> Hi Marvin,
>> 
>> On 4/15/20 9:30 AM, Liu, Yong wrote:
>> >> @@ -2120,7 +2119,7 @@ virtio_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>> >>
>> >> 	/* if request features changed, reinit the device */
>> >> 	if (req_features != hw->req_guest_features) {
>> >> -		ret = virtio_init_device(dev, req_features);
>> >> +		ret = virtio_negotiate_features(hw, req_features);
>> > Why do we need to change virtio_init_device to virtio_negotiate_features
>> > here?
>> 
>> 
>> You missed to reply to that question from Xiaolong.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Maxime
>