[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix missing driver name

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 1/18/2017 1:49 PM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yigit, Ferruh
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 7:53 PM
>> To: Tan, Jianfeng; dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Liu, Yuanhan; stable at dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix missing driver name
>>
>> On 1/18/2017 11:44 AM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
>>> API rte_eth_dev_info_get() fills driver name according to drv_name
>>> of rte_eth_dev_data. But we have not fill such info in virtio_user.
>>>
>>> We do not use the same one with virtio device as some applications
>>> might depend on driver name to differetiate kinds of devices, such
>>> as VPP.
>>>
>>> Fixes: e9efa4d93821 ("net/virtio-user: add new virtual PCI driver")
>>> CC: stable at dpdk.org
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
>> b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
>>> index c877968..110f6a9 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
>>> @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ virtio_user_eth_dev_alloc(const char *name)
>>>  	hw->use_simple_rxtx = 0;
>>>  	hw->virtio_user_dev = dev;
>>>  	data->dev_private = hw;
>>> +	data->drv_name = "virtio_user PMD";
>>
>> How driver naming done changed in next-net.
>> Please check any other virtual driver in next-net for sample.
> 
> Thank you for the info. And it seems that it's already fixed by that patch.

That patch modified during merge, can you please confirm the latest
version in the repo?