[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 03/15] eal: do not call init for PMD_PDEV drivers

Jan Viktorin viktorin at rehivetech.com
Fri Jul 8 21:09:33 CEST 2016


There is no way how to call an init on a PMD_PDEV driver as those
drivers are all PCI drivers and they do not register any rte_driver
with EAL. We can drop the loop over PMD_PDEV drivers entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c
index f9b3d1d..f4c880c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ int
 rte_eal_dev_init(void)
 {
 	struct rte_devargs *devargs;
-	struct rte_driver *driver;
 
 	/*
 	 * Note that the dev_driver_list is populated here
@@ -89,13 +88,6 @@ rte_eal_dev_init(void)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Once the vdevs are initalized, start calling all the pdev drivers */
-	TAILQ_FOREACH(driver, &dev_driver_list, next) {
-		if (driver->type != PMD_PDEV)
-			continue;
-		/* PDEV drivers don't get passed any parameters */
-		driver->init(NULL, NULL);
-	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.9.0



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