From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.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 15:23:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5680509.vJ63cQx4Bi@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397140907-17856-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
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 this patch won't be applied.
Your help to continue cleaning this area is welcome.
--
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-11 13:21 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 [this message]
2014-04-11 13:46 ` John W. Linville
2014-04-13 18:22 ` Neil Horman
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