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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: liwencheng <liwencheng@phytium.com.cn>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] net/macb: add new poll mode driver
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:38:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250416093832.43bef142@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1744093201-313699-1-git-send-email-liwencheng@phytium.com.cn>

On Tue,  8 Apr 2025 06:20:01 +0000
liwencheng <liwencheng@phytium.com.cn> wrote:

> +
> +	dev_num = rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, MACB_DEVICE_NAME_ARG);
> +
> +	/* compatibility support */
> +	if (!strcmp(vdev_name, "net_macb")) {
> +		if (dev_num > MACB_MAX_PORT_NUM) {
> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			MACB_LOG(ERR, "number of devices exceeded. Maximum value: %d.",
> +				 MACB_MAX_PORT_NUM);
> +			goto out_free_kvlist;
> +		}
> +	} else {
> +		if (dev_num != 1) {
> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			MACB_LOG(ERR, "Error args: one vdev to one device.");
> +			goto out_free_kvlist;
> +		}
> +	}
> +

Since this is to first merged version of the driver, confused about what
compatibility means in this context?

Does the driver require devargs to work? Isn't it a hardware driver.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-16 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-02  6:58 [PATCH v4 2/4] " liwencheng
2025-04-03  1:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-04-03  1:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2025-04-07  6:38 ` [PATCH v5 " liwencheng
2025-04-08  6:20   ` [PATCH v6 1/3] " liwencheng
2025-04-16 16:38     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2025-04-18  3:25     ` [PATCH v7 " Wencheng Li
2025-04-16 16:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] " Stephen Hemminger
2025-04-16 16:34 ` Stephen Hemminger

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