Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix missing driver name

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 1/18/2017 11:44 AM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> API rte_eth_dev_info_get() fills driver name according to drv_name
> of rte_eth_dev_data. But we have not fill such info in virtio_user.
> 
> We do not use the same one with virtio device as some applications
> might depend on driver name to differetiate kinds of devices, such
> as VPP.
> 
> Fixes: e9efa4d93821 ("net/virtio-user: add new virtual PCI driver")
> CC: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> index c877968..110f6a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ virtio_user_eth_dev_alloc(const char *name)
>  	hw->use_simple_rxtx = 0;
>  	hw->virtio_user_dev = dev;
>  	data->dev_private = hw;
> +	data->drv_name = "virtio_user PMD";

How driver naming done changed in next-net.
Please check any other virtual driver in next-net for sample.

>  	data->numa_node = SOCKET_ID_ANY;
>  	data->kdrv = RTE_KDRV_NONE;
>  	data->dev_flags = RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE;
>