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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] eal: VMBUS infrastructure
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:05:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110100502.5b55059b@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALe+Z000WmS4WeL315otctGkYayPqspEB20o+RTxzgA8ieS8_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:27:31 +0100
Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> wrote:

> > +#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_HV_PMD
> > +/**
> > + * @internal
> > + * Wrapper for use by vmbus drivers as a .probe function to attach to a ethdev
> > + * interface.
> > + */
> > +int rte_eth_dev_vmbus_probe(struct rte_vmbus_driver *vmbus_drv,
> > +                         struct rte_vmbus_device *vmbus_dev);
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * @internal
> > + * Wrapper for use by vmbus drivers as a .remove function to detach a ethdev
> > + * interface.
> > + */
> > +int rte_eth_dev_vmbus_remove(struct rte_vmbus_device *vmbus_dev);
> > +#endif  
> 
> I don't think that replicating the PCI probe/remove wrappers is the
> right thing to do. To me it looks like this should move into the
> rte_vmbus_driver's probe function instead. That way the ethdev header
> can decoupled from the low-level device implementations.

With a real bus model. There would be registration of busses. And the probe would
be:
   foreach bus
       foreach device on bus
...

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-07 18:17 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] device abstraction and VMBUS support infrastructure Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] ethdev: increase length ethernet device internal name Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/8] i40e: don't refer to eth_dev->pci_dev Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 12:08   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-10 17:57     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-11  7:55       ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/8] vmxnet3: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 12:10   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/8] cxgbe: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 12:12   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/8] nfp: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 12:13   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/8] qat: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 12:15   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] ethdev: break ethernet driver and pci_driver connection Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 13:59   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-10 17:58     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-10 18:02       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] add rte_bus->probe Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-10 18:02         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] separate bus and functionality driver structs Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-11  4:53         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] add rte_bus->probe Shreyansh Jain
2017-01-11 15:03           ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-12  5:28             ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-01-10 16:11   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] ethdev: break ethernet driver and pci_driver connection Jan Blunck
2017-01-10 18:03     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-07 18:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] eal: VMBUS infrastructure Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10 17:27   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-10 18:05     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-01-11 14:49   ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-11 21:13     ` Jan Blunck
2017-01-12  1:20       ` Stephen Hemminger

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