Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] drivers/bus: move driver assignment to end of probing

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

11/10/2018 12:53, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 10/8/18 1:09 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The PCI mapping requires to know the PCI driver to use,
> > even before the probing is done. That's why the PCI driver is
> > referenced early inside the PCI device structure. See
> > 1d20a073fa5e ("bus/pci: reference driver structure before mapping")
> >
> > However the rte_driver does not need to be referenced in rte_device
> > before the device probing is done.
> > By moving back this assignment at the end of the device probing,
> > it becomes possible to make clear the status of a rte_device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c b/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c
> > index c7695d108..d63e68045 100644
> > --- a/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c
> > @@ -160,14 +160,12 @@ rte_pci_probe_one_driver(struct rte_pci_driver *dr,
> >   	 * driver flags for adjusting configuration.
> >   	 */
> >   	dev->driver = dr;
> > -	dev->device.driver = &dr->driver;
> 
> It breaks net/sfc and I guess other drivers which use 
> rte_eth_dma_zone_reserve()
> from probe. The function makes zone name using dev->device->driver->name.

Please, can you show code line where we does such access?

I checked such access before and did not find some.
Anyway, it can be fixed by accessing rte_pci_driver->driver->name.
Note that rte_pci_driver is referenced in rte_pci_device.