[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: Enable Port Hotplug as default in Linux and BSD

Tetsuya Mukawa mukawa at igel.co.jp
Wed Jul 1 08:37:26 CEST 2015


On 2015/07/01 0:40, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 04:08:08PM +0100, Iremonger, Bernard wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tetsuya Mukawa [mailto:mukawa at igel.co.jp]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 9:27 AM
>>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: Iremonger, Bernard; david.marchand at 6wind.com; Richardson, Bruce;
>>> Tetsuya.Mukawa
>>> Subject: [PATCH v4] eal: Enable Port Hotplug as default in Linux and BSD
>>>
>>> From: "Tetsuya.Mukawa" <mukawa at igel.co.jp>
>>>
>>> This patch removes CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_HOTPLUG option, and enables
>>> it as default in both Linux and BSD.
>>> Also, to support port hotplug, rte_eal_pci_scan() and below missing symbols
>>> should be exported to ethdev library.
>>>  - rte_eal_parse_devargs_str()
>>>  - rte_eal_pci_close_one()
>>>  - rte_eal_pci_probe_one()
>>>  - rte_eal_pci_scan()
>>>  - rte_eal_vdev_init()
>>>  - rte_eal_vdev_uninit()
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp>
>> Hi Tetsuya,
>>
>> Would it be cleaner to add this patch to the  [PATCH  v7 12/12] patch set as  patch 13 rather than having it as a separate patch?
>>
> The other patch set is cleanup, merging BSD and Linuxapp code, so I think it's
> best kept as a separate set. New features I'd suggest keeping separate from
> cleanup. 
> That being said, it is only one patch, so it probably doesn't matter much either
> way. :-)
>
> /Bruce

Thanks for commenting. Let's keep separating.
It will be easy for me to write cover-letter of the patch series.

Regards,
Tetsuya


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