From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AE91C89C for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 16:23:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3BDA7D83F; Mon, 14 May 2018 14:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ktraynor.remote.csb (ovpn-117-214.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.214]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C574B2024CA9; Mon, 14 May 2018 14:23:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Kevin Traynor To: Yuanhan Liu Cc: Aaron Conole , stable@dpdk.org, Alejandro Lucero , Ferruh Yigit , Eelco Chaudron , Pablo Cascon , Adrien Mazarguil , Thomas Monjalon References: <20180430172040.13506-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20180506063438.tgp7oso4gj5qnng4@yuanhanliu-NB0.tencent.com> <6d5445c2-682b-1fe2-df7a-0be25c0596bf@redhat.com> Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:23:41 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6d5445c2-682b-1fe2-df7a-0be25c0596bf@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.2]); Mon, 14 May 2018 14:23:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.2]); Mon, 14 May 2018 14:23:45 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.4' DOMAIN:'int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'ktraynor@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] nfp: support non-root user for the Netronome X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 14:23:46 -0000 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(-) >>>> >