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On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 10:39:35AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-11-01 16:15, Yuanhan Liu:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 09:58:51AM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> > > Agree, what we need is to be able to disable Virtio PMD features
> > > without having to rebuild the PMD.
> > 
> > I want this feature (or more precisely, ability) long times ago.
> > For example, I'd wish there is an option like "force_legacy" when
> > both legacy and modern exist.
> 
> You can change the behaviour of the driver with a run-time parameter
> as a struct rte_devargs.

Thanks for the tip! Yeah, it's a workable solution, not an ideal one though.

	--yliu