Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] nfp: support non-root user for the Netronome

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

Ping Yuanhan - can you clarify question below? Also, can you let us know
when you are planning further backports to 17.11 stable branch?

thanks,
Kevin.

On 05/08/2018 10:23 AM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 07:34 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Kevin Traynor wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just applied it to dpdk-stable/17.11. It will be part of 17.11.3
>> LTS release.
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> They don't appear to be on the branch? Maybe you have a private 'next'
> branch or something in your workflow, but reporting in case something
> still needs to be pushed.
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 	--yliu
>>>
>>> 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(-)
>>>>
>