Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Tools: Fix issue with virtio interface names

Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Tools: Fix issue with virtio interface names

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 03:23:34PM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Gary Mussar
> > Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 2:17 PM
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: Gary Mussar <gmussar@ciena.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Tools: Fix issue with virtio interface names
> > 
> > The dpdk-devbind.py script does not find/display the ifname for virtio
> > interfaces since the "net" directory is not directly under the device
> > directory but rather under a subdirectory.
> > eg.
> > > dpdk-devbind.py --status
> > 0000:00:03.0 'Virtio network device' if= drv=virtio-pci unused=
> > 
> > This change searches for the first "net" directory under the device
> > directory hierarchy.
> > eg.
> > 0000:00:03.0 'Virtio network device' if=ens3 drv=virtio-pci unused=
> > 
> > Fixes: 629395b063e8 ("igb_uio: remove PCI id table")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gary Mussar <gmussar@ciena.com>
> 
> Thanks for that.
> 
> Note, the subject line should be lowercase but apart from that:

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio, this this minor fix.

And, it looks like a good candidate for stable release, so,
stable@dpdk.org cc'ed.

Thanks.

	--yliu

> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
>