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From: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <3chas3@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devargs: add blacklisting by linux interface
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On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 16:18 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:00:07AM -0400, Chas Williams wrote:
> > If a system is using deterministic interface names, it may be easier in
> > some cases to use the interface name to blacklist an interface.
> >
> 
> Is it possible to do this using the existing arguments, i.e. have the -b flag
> detect if it's a pci address or name automatically, rather than having to use
> a separate command-line arg for it?

You might be able to distinguish names by context.  I doubt interface
names ever look like PCI addresses.  But that's going to be a bigger
change since -b will need to be updated to 'blacklist' intead of
'pci-blacklist' to prevent confusion.  Or do you just want to overload
'-b' and keep both long options?