From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Cc: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
vido@cesnet.cz, fiona.trahe@intel.com,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: advertise kmod dependencies in pmdinfo
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:17:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160919081726.GA23360@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALwxeUvaV2zhAxgLabCx3mF_ftfSPgSXRy8fzCdktPDWngTuJA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:26:35PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> wrote:
> > Add a new macro DRIVER_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP() that allows a driver to
> > declare the list of kernel modules required to run properly.
> >
> > Today, most PCI drivers require uio/vfio.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
>
> Thanks Olivier, this looks good to me.
>
> Btw, I remember some issues with binding ixgbevf devices to
> uio_pci_generic, so advertising should be carefully checked for each
> driver.
+1 here. In general, uio_pci_generic will not bind to VF devices as VF devices
don't provide legacy interrupts, which is required to use uio_pci_generic. It's
not limited to just ixgbevf
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-19 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 13:20 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] " Olivier Matz
2016-08-30 8:40 ` Matej Vido
2016-08-30 8:56 ` Olivier Matz
2016-08-30 13:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-dev, RFC] " Neil Horman
2016-08-31 9:21 ` Olivier Matz
2016-08-31 13:27 ` Neil Horman
2016-08-31 13:39 ` Olivier Matz
2016-09-01 12:55 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-01 17:35 ` Neil Horman
2016-09-01 17:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-01 19:15 ` Neil Horman
2016-09-02 9:19 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-02 13:33 ` Neil Horman
2016-09-02 13:52 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-02 14:15 ` Neil Horman
2016-09-02 16:13 ` Olivier Matz
2016-09-02 10:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-15 14:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Olivier Matz
2016-09-16 9:49 ` Trahe, Fiona
2016-09-16 14:26 ` David Marchand
2016-09-19 8:17 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2016-09-19 12:25 ` Olivier Matz
2016-11-22 9:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Olivier Matz
2016-11-22 10:27 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-11-22 10:31 ` Olivier Matz
2016-12-15 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Olivier Matz
2016-12-15 14:52 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-16 9:36 ` Olivier Matz
2016-12-19 13:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-15 16:09 ` Neil Horman
2016-12-15 17:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-16 9:22 ` Olivier Matz
2016-12-16 12:37 ` Neil Horman
2016-12-16 13:04 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-16 14:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-19 12:42 ` Neil Horman
2016-12-19 14:12 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-16 8:23 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-12-20 17:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-21 9:21 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2016-12-21 11:37 ` Neil Horman
2016-12-21 11:40 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2016-12-22 11:04 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-22 11:35 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2016-12-22 12:07 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-22 12:08 ` Andrew Rybchenko
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