[EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Rework device probing

[Long Li]

> On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:34:56 +0200
> Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a workaround until this patch is added, if I don't want rte_eal_init() to
> probe any devices, but I want my application to probe devices later by calling
> rte_bus_scan() followed by rte_bus_probe()?
> >
> > It's not something we really need, so if you don't know it off the top of your
> head, don't spend time trying to figure it out.
> >
> >
> > Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
> > -Morten Brørup
> 
> We do need it because of the problems with vdev_netvsc.
> The issue is that vdev_netvsc tries to setup failsafe on all netvsc devices it sees,
> and it determines which ones are used by OS based on somewhat fragile OS
> probes with netlink.
> 
> I would recommend getting rid of vdev_netvsc, or make the the auto scanning
> there something that has to be forced by devargs.
> But that really is up to the netvsc maintainers.

Hi Morten,

Can you use --vdev=net_vdev_netvsc,ignore=1? The ignore devarg is already supported by the vdev_netvsc PMD — when set, the probe function skips all netvsc interface discovery and returns early.

Long