Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 00/25] Device querying

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

11/07/2018 23:44, Gaetan Rivet:
> Gaetan Rivet (25):
>   devargs: use rte-log functions
>   devargs: add non-variadic parsing function
>   kvargs: remove error logs
>   kvargs: build before EAL
>   kvargs: introduce a more flexible parsing function
>   eal: introduce dtor macros
>   eal: introduce device class abstraction
>   devargs: add function to parse device layers
>   eal/dev: add device iterator interface
>   eal/dev: implement device iteration initialization
>   eal/dev: implement device iteration
>   kvargs: add generic string matching callback
>   bus/pci: implement device iteration and comparison
>   bus/pci: add device matching field id
>   bus/vdev: implement device iteration
>   bus/vdev: add device matching field driver
>   ethdev: add private generic device iterator
>   ethdev: register ether layer as a class
>   ethdev: add device matching field name
>   app/testpmd: add show device command
>   bus/pci: pre-process declarative PCI devargs
>   bus/vdev: pre-process declarative vdev devargs
>   bus/pci: process declarative PCI devargs
>   ethdev: process declarative eth devargs
>   eal: add generic dev parameter

This series did not get a lot of reviews, especially for the last half
of patches.
As it allows to make some progress to get a generic devargs syntax,
I decide to apply the first 12 patches, which brings a base for a
generic devargs syntax parsing.

The last half of patches are implementing some parsing/iteration
for PCI, vdev and ethdev. They need to be discussed and agreed
with more reviews. And more importantly, we need to add more properties
in the devargs syntax, and we need to address more buses and device classes.

Getting the parsing base in 18.08 should help to close the full syntax
in 18.11.

Thank you Gaetan for the big work.