From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <thomas@monjalon.net>
Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com
 [66.111.4.29]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB47E1CDBD
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Thu,  5 Apr 2018 22:43:41 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41])
 by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A052103F;
 Thu,  5 Apr 2018 16:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162])
 by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:43:41 -0400
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h=
 cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to
 :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender
 :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=tVtl2UuosN6NivKIHwex4aqRY8
 LicExTNV6th68PXnc=; b=T84vUf7Hk/tZmDO54XLtwOhvRqG4oyrbcAwP63XRwZ
 86l3CxS/s6rXabv9GrkoVWuOuOyrzhXSwXZMw5rxAbbcN7ku0ffqCFjRGcqskCGg
 acanNZ306SuB6otxSGFoMMPpsdI7aQPu+HFGg8owoZPiGmu3Mc0Slzu5lCPXJ2YP
 Q=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=
 messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type
 :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references
 :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=tVtl2U
 uosN6NivKIHwex4aqRY8LicExTNV6th68PXnc=; b=FrOZm2ajFVdwmEuYnf9Mu3
 p6IvMyCateLNVOvLddYyChEt0w7n4UKJB5Rk9/lfvx/vdeo6ry/e1HcGEFBvW23C
 sdiRNf/LCqk/7EWHUa1t91fnhPDITTmlVdIHBJA5CgXAFo9nvWdXxC92i/8a/ZKa
 jAfX4/jCuwbhrIrtzN59sKgoaxOy62R26IoHdY3K3XKf0XbCdU2JjydHA2lwZ1Ds
 sxv6nmU6GdBXGmlUK8nemskyK/j78Z5TsVy3uv1Lxa7yuLhMRLMya18wWt4d1jUd
 43TmhjB5A3EXB/rHwHeX35gSqJDcN6+MNMlSfMhmLJsUdwtdH3xOO3aU+Ql68W+w
 ==
X-ME-Sender: <xms:fYrGWt37gqNA8azKcQQT8mHJF8gAVbtC2ef0oMq6uPKPUBjphl3ROw>
Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184])
 by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8B0E6E502E;
 Thu,  5 Apr 2018 16:43:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:43:39 +0200
Message-ID: <1607753.vleKbttEpa@xps>
In-Reply-To: <20180405191305.26813-3-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
References: <20180405191305.26813-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
 <20180405191305.26813-3-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] usertools: add hv_uio_setup script
X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/>
List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:43:41 -0000

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.