Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] devbind: check for lspci

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/7/2018 1:56 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> On some distributions (such as CentOS 7) lspci may not be installed
> by default, causing exceptions which are difficult to interpret.
> 
> Fix devbind script to check if lspci is installed at script startup.

I guess we need lspci for `--status`, bind/unbind can be done without `lspci`,
what about adding check only display path?

> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
>  usertools/dpdk-devbind.py | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> index 7d564634c..74bf514c0 100755
> --- a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> +++ b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> @@ -655,6 +655,13 @@ def do_arg_actions():
>  
>  def main():
>      '''program main function'''
> +    # check if lspci is installed, suppress any output
> +    with open(os.devnull, 'w') as devnull:
> +        ret = subprocess.call(['which', 'lspci'],
> +                              stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
> +        if ret != 0:
> +            print("'lspci' not found - please install 'lspci'")
> +            sys.exit(1)
>      parse_args()
>      check_modules()
>      clear_data()
>