[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver

[Gaëtan Rivet]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:11:44PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 19/09/2018 18:03, Gaetan Rivet:
> > The vdev bus parses a field "driver", matching
> > a vdev driver name with one passed as follows:
> > 
> >    "bus=vdev,driver=xxxx"
> 
> I think the property should be "name".
> We already have a "driver" category.
> So it may be "bus=vdev,name=mytap/driver=tap"
> 
> Until now we were using the name of the driver as a prefix for
> the device name because it was the only way of knowing the driver to use.
> With a richer syntax like above, this restriction can be removed.

Do you want all buses to read the driver= key and use it to know which
driver to probe, or is it an exception of the vdev bus?

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Gaëtan Rivet
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