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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix issues with VFIO
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:44:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140618134417.GA3301@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1403096022.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:07:17PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> This patchset fixes an issue with VFIO where DPDK initialization could
> fail even if the user didn't want to use VFIO in the first place. Also,
> more verbose and descriptive error messages were added to VFIO code, for
> example distinguishing between a failed ioctl() call and an unsupported
> VFIO API version.
> 
> Anatoly Burakov (2):
>   vfio: open VFIO container at startup rather than during init
>   vfio: more verbose error messages
> 

You still need a changelog entry with each patch (the cover letter doesn't get
included with the patches in git).  You also probably want to mention that the
second patch also fixes a case in which syscall errors are erroneously treated
as a success case

Neil

>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_vfio.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.1.4
> 
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-17  9:12 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: open VFIO container at startup rather than during init Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-17 16:50 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-06-17 16:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-06-18  8:57   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-06-18 10:08     ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2014-06-18 10:26       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-06-18 11:00         ` Neil Horman
2014-06-18 11:02           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-06-18 11:07             ` Neil Horman
2014-06-18 13:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix issues with VFIO Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-18 13:07   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] vfio: open VFIO container at startup rather than during init Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-18 13:07   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] vfio: more verbose error messages Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-18 13:44   ` Neil Horman [this message]
2014-06-18 15:07   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix issues with VFIO Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-18 15:07     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] vfio: open VFIO container at startup rather than during init Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-18 15:07     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] vfio: more verbose error messages Anatoly Burakov
2014-06-18 17:55     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix issues with VFIO Richardson, Bruce
2014-06-18 23:09       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-06-18 18:51     ` Neil Horman

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