From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_pmd_init_all: initialize non-PCI PMDs provided by EAL
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:46:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140411134623.GB15596@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5680509.vJ63cQx4Bi@xps13>
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 03:23:27PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> 2014-04-10 10:41, John W. Linville:
> > These PMDs were being initialized by the EAL layer, but many apps were
> > relying on the return value of rte_pmd_init_all to indicate that
> > ethernet interfaces were available for use. Move the initialization of
> > the non-PCI PMDs to this centralized function to have all of the PMDs
> > treated equally.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
>
> We are using constuctors to initialize these drivers. See the patches from
> Olivier Matz.
> The function rte_pmd_init_all() should be removed.
So long as you make DPDK-based apps not die when only using non-PCI
(i.e. "virtual") PMDs, I'll be happy...
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-13 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-10 14:41 John W. Linville
2014-04-11 13:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 13:46 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2014-04-13 18:22 ` Neil Horman
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