[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devargs: restore rte_devtype API

[Thomas Monjalon]

15/07/2017 20:59, Gaetan Rivet:
> Revert "devargs: make device types generic"
> 
> This commit broke the rte_devargs API by changing the meaning of
> the rte_devtype enum.
> 
> Restore the previous API, unit tests and function calls.
> Introduce parallel enum that acts as translation between previous API
> and current structures.
> 
> Restoring the previous API means that -w and -b are not usable anymore
> with any bus having implemented the "parse" operation. Only PCI devices
> can be used with -w and -b, virtual devices are declared using vdev.
> 
> This (partially) reverts commit bd279a79366f50a4893fb84db91bbf64b56f9fb1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
> ---
> 
> As correctly pointed out by Jan Blunck in [1], the previous change breaks an existing API.
> This commit only deals with this API. Doing so however, restore the previous behavior as well.
> This means that the devargs behavior is iso-functional with that of the v17.05.
> It is possible, however, to explicitly set the bus in a device declaration.
> 
> [1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/071318.html

Applied, thanks