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From: "Gaëtan Rivet" <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:53:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180921115312.sdegsb3ko2mbf7hc@bidouze.vm.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2305853.Xkr2rJqqKv@xps>

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:11:44PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 19/09/2018 18:03, Gaetan Rivet:
> > The vdev bus parses a field "driver", matching
> > a vdev driver name with one passed as follows:
> > 
> >    "bus=vdev,driver=xxxx"
> 
> I think the property should be "name".
> We already have a "driver" category.
> So it may be "bus=vdev,name=mytap/driver=tap"
> 
> Until now we were using the name of the driver as a prefix for
> the device name because it was the only way of knowing the driver to use.
> With a richer syntax like above, this restriction can be removed.

Do you want all buses to read the driver= key and use it to know which
driver to probe, or is it an exception of the vdev bus?

-- 
Gaëtan Rivet
6WIND

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-21 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-30 13:41 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 00/13] Implement new devargs framework Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 01/13] bus/pci: implement device iteration and comparison Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 02/13] bus/pci: add device matching field id Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 03/13] bus/vdev: implement device iteration Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 05/13] ethdev: add private generic device iterator Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:09   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-31 10:22     ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 06/13] ethdev: register ether layer as a class Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:09   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 07/13] ethdev: add device matching field name Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:10   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 08/13] app/testpmd: add show device command Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 09/13] bus/pci: pre-process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 10/13] bus/vdev: pre-process declarative vdev devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 11/13] bus/pci: process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 16:15   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-30 16:37     ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 12/13] ethdev: process declarative eth devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:10   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-31 12:16     ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 13/13] eal: add generic dev parameter Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 00/13] Implement new devargs framework Stephen Hemminger
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/13] bus/pci: implement device iteration and comparison Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/13] bus/pci: add device matching field id Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/13] bus/vdev: implement device iteration Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 16:11     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-21 11:53       ` Gaëtan Rivet [this message]
2018-09-21 12:55         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/13] ethdev: add private generic device iterator Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 10:02     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/13] ethdev: register ether layer as a class Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/13] ethdev: add device matching field name Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 16:17     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-21 12:16       ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-09-21 13:06         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/13] app/testpmd: add show device command Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/13] bus/pci: pre-process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/13] bus/vdev: pre-process declarative vdev devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/13] bus/pci: process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/13] ethdev: process declarative eth devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 10:11     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-09-19 16:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/13] eal: add generic dev parameter Gaetan Rivet
2018-10-03 12:31   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/13] Implement new devargs framework Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-19  5:43     ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula

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