Re: [dpdk-dev] White listing a virtual device

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2014-11-07 14:28, Nicolas Pernas Maradei:
> Thanks for your reply. The -w option is the same as --pci-whitelist 
> mentioned in my first email. Declaring a virtual device with --vdev 
> means that I want to use it but there doesn't seem to be a way to say 
> that I want to use only that device. Clearly the white list option is 
> the way to specify this but if virtual devices are excluded from 
> -w/--pci-whitelist you can't only white list the virtual devices.
> 
> I want to be able to have the same command line arguments across several 
> systems under test without having to know where the physical devices are 
> (to black list them).
> 
> My issue is not that I don't want to black list the physical devices 
> it's just that I want to white list the virtual ones. I don't see why 
> that option is not available.

OK, now I better understand your need.
I think that your use case was simply forgotten when designing the
new behaviour.
Could you prepare a patch for this need?
Or maybe you could workaround with a script based on lspci to blacklist all
network devices?

-- 
Thomas