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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Felix Marti <felix@chelsio.com>,
	Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>,
	Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Does FreeBSD's nic_uio have bind/unbind interface support?
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:42:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150716111203.GA3535@scalar.blr.asicdesigners.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150716085714.GA9348@bricha3-MOBL3>

Hi Bruce and David,

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:57:15 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:57:03AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > Hello Rahul,
> > 
> > (cc Bruce)
> > 
> > How about removing this "whitelist" from the nic_uio driver and just rely
> > on the hw.nic_uio.bdfs parameter to find out which devices to bind ?
> >
> Yes, that would be my thinking too. It probably should work that way, much as
> linux does.
> 
> /Bruce
> 

Tried the suggestion on removing the "whitelist" checks and it seems to work
fine for us.  It's allowing T5 devices to be bound to nic_uio and also results
in successful probe.

Will prepare a patch to remove the whitelist checks and pci id entries from
nic_uio and post soon.

Thanks,
Rahul

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-16 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-16 12:12 Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-07-16  7:57 ` David Marchand
2015-07-16  8:57   ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-16 11:12     ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]

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