[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] usertools: add hv_uio_setup script

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Apr 5 23:03:29 CEST 2018


On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:43:39 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 05/04/2018 21:13, Stephen Hemminger:
> > Small script to rebind netvsc kernel device to Hyper-V
> > networking PMD. It could be integrated in dpdk-bind, but dpdk-bind
> > is focused on PCI, and that would get messy.
> > 
> > Eventually, this functionality will be built into netvsc driver
> > (see vdev_netvsc as an example).  
> 
> I believe we should avoid creating such script.
> The direction to go, for hotplug, is to remove dpdk-devbind.py,
> and implement kernel binding in PMDs (with EAL helpers).
> 
> In order to make this change happen, we should not
> add this hv_uio_setup.sh script.

Yes, this is a temporary script like dpdk-bind, want to get rid of it
and do everything inside driver. That is the next step.


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