From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE823DC for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:20:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Jun 2017 07:20:33 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.39,333,1493708400"; d="scan'208";a="113846753" Received: from bricha3-mobl3.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.28]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 12 Jun 2017 07:20:32 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:20:31 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:20:31 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Ferruh Yigit Cc: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20170612142030.GB67396@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20170609175120.77652-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20170612141354.59062-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20170612141354.59062-2-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170612141354.59062-2-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> Organization: Intel Research and =?iso-8859-1?Q?De=ACvel?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?opment?= Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.1 (2017-04-11) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] net/ring: use EAL APIs in PMD specific API X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:20:35 -0000 On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 03:13:53PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > When ring PMD created via PMD specific API instead of EAL abstraction > it is missing the virtual device creation done by EAL vdev. > > And this makes eth_dev unusable exact same as other PMDs used, because > of some missing fields, like rte_device->name. > > Now API calls EAL APIs to create ring PMDs. > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit > --- Acked-by: Bruce Richardson