From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (mail-wi0-f174.google.com [209.85.212.174]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BC9AE9A for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 15:13:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id r20so9276292wiv.13 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 06:13:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=RH/NBH+Bmh1XzH5378bhPchWZvkP3oe5ARyA75OygiQ=; b=WMTtKFDj5Y6CjBVx8NZtXtDDlcRhnAhoxztWEIY3AcWZl41w8vcEPVeqH4s9fNTiFl XLcMDT61wzYt/0rT134qpIhSI1SMUKluW8/BD1z+3IVOUs1bVmiarwAtE46VWtwmcOb4 2ZNy7YJogZQ4qlvyAvbZqOcrQAh7k9IchzhWM+MI96dEPBcYmsVVsHwL5P6mzo4VgiPH TXiXTFzRQOEOtvdpyM65FTdQzPf2Dv+4ldE3HD8CloNDfVTxYfTgHpG5zlZkjELK+l4u eMH/YcfV3mgdqDoBqpPrnQ1vHrnetR0bXnNRos9OhmE6UUx/Pz27S3CBhmUuF/yumk9K p7aQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkJAhpGr0IPAUDSxPa/ijLr/Ge/rOW0qk05FHnsEo06v1cOQDxWHl6gTXAneTeVIzv5ifOK X-Received: by 10.194.80.7 with SMTP id n7mr50146975wjx.8.1400764434393; Thu, 22 May 2014 06:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (6wind.net2.nerim.net. [213.41.180.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ek4sm324788wib.9.2014.05.22.06.13.51 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 22 May 2014 06:13:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Anatoly Burakov Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:13:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1444994.s4JW68cLD9@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.14.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1400514709-24087-14-git-send-email-anatoly.burakov@intel.com> References: <1400514709-24087-14-git-send-email-anatoly.burakov@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/16] Removed PCI ID table from igb_uio X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:13:45 -0000 2014-05-19 16:51, Anatoly Burakov: > Note that since igb_uio no longer has a PCI ID list, it can now be > bound to any device, not just those explicitly supported by DPDK. In > other words, it now behaves similar to PCI stub, VFIO and other generic > PCI drivers. I wonder if we could replace igb_uio by uio_pci_generic? > Therefore to bind a new device to igb_uio, the user will now have to > first write its PCI ID to "new_id" file inside the igb_uio driver > directory, and only then write the PCI ID to "bind". This will be > reflected in later changes to PCI binding script as well. Please explain in the commit log why you are removing PCI ids from igb_uio. -- Thomas