From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, stable@dpdk.org
Cc: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
Pablo Cascon <pablo.cascon@redhat.com>,
Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] nfp: support non-root user for the Netronome
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:02:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a72cca0a-46af-f9f6-78a4-945d27b2dfc6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180430172040.13506-1-aconole@redhat.com>
On 04/30/2018 06:20 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Even when trying to use the Netronome cards via VFIO, there is a
> lock file being requested, which requires root access. This series
> fixes an issue with the nfp driver lock release always releasing
> 'nfp0' (which isn't a bug in practice for other reasons) as well
> as allowing the lock file location to be configured by the application
> or user via the HOME environment variable (similar to other resources
> in the DPDK framework).
>
> This series is only applicable to the stable tree because the nfp
> driver is completely rewritten for later versions of DPDK.
>
Hi Yuanhan, I think we would like to get this into the next 17.11 stable
release if possible. Not sure when you are merging patches into the tree
for it?
Kevin.
> Aaron Conole (2):
> nfp: unlink the appropriate lock file
> nfp: allow for non-root user
>
> drivers/net/nfp/nfp_nfpu.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-30 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-30 17:20 Aaron Conole
2018-04-30 17:20 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] nfp: unlink the appropriate lock file Aaron Conole
2018-04-30 17:20 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] nfp: allow for non-root user Aaron Conole
2018-05-08 13:09 ` Eelco Chaudron
2018-05-08 13:20 ` Aaron Conole
2018-05-09 17:05 ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-05-09 17:53 ` Aaron Conole
2018-05-09 19:44 ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-05-10 12:00 ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-04-30 18:02 ` Kevin Traynor [this message]
2018-05-06 6:34 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] nfp: support non-root user for the Netronome Yuanhan Liu
2018-05-08 9:23 ` Kevin Traynor
2018-05-14 14:23 ` Kevin Traynor
2018-05-20 7:19 ` Yuanhan Liu
2018-05-22 10:45 ` Kevin Traynor
2018-05-01 10:36 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-05-03 10:30 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-05-03 12:25 ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-05-03 12:57 ` Luca Boccassi
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