[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 01/14] eal_pci: Add flag to hold kernel driver type

Iremonger, Bernard bernard.iremonger at intel.com
Mon Feb 16 17:14:51 CET 2015


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tetsuya Mukawa [mailto:mukawa at igel.co.jp]
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 4:14 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Qiu, Michael; Iremonger, Bernard; Tetsuya Mukawa
> Subject: [PATCH v8 01/14] eal_pci: Add flag to hold kernel driver type
> 
> From: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu at intel.com>
> 
> Currently, dpdk has no ability to know which type of driver(
> vfio-pci/igb_uio/uio_pci_generic) the device used. It only can check whether vfio is enabled or not
> staticly.
> 
> It really useful to have the flag, becasue different type need to handle differently in runtime. For
> example, pci memory map, pot hotplug, and so on.
> 
> This patch add a flag field for pci device to solve above issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp>

Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger at intel.com>



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