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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>, dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	 Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>,
	"Ye, Xiaolong" <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>,
	 Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>,
	Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
	 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>, Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/pci: optimize pci device probe
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 18:16:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xhYwW9L-GwR9mSEwVPhgD9g__p+Rj=wbTUri1QqpKmRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBAE1Nd4_0-Z6VwxwdeGt5NRUyk9NA7FNg66wA-4tfM7CrrYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 5:50 PM Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Removing this special case could break x86 applications running with
> > > legacy virtio.
> > >
> > >
> > > On the plus side, we have been announcing for some time in virtio:
> > > RTE_PMD_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP(net_virtio, "* igb_uio | uio_pci_generic | vfio-pci");
> >
> > What is to conclude?
> > # The In-tree virtio driver uses ""* igb_uio | uio_pci_generic |
> > vfio-pci"" driver as backend and it does not need RTE_KDRV_NONE?
> > OR
> > # The in-tree, legacy virtio(const struct virtio_pci_ops legacy_op)
> > can work without any kernel driver in the backend. So RTE_KDRV_NONE
> > need?
>
> Ping. What is the conclusion? If it is former then this patch is valid.

I am fine with dropping the legacy part, but I wanted to hear from
Maxime at least.


-- 
David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-26 17:38 jerinj
2020-04-26 18:08 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-26 18:41   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-04-26 20:06     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-27 17:59       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-04-28  8:50       ` David Marchand
2020-04-28  9:34         ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-05 15:50           ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-05 16:16             ` David Marchand [this message]
2020-05-06  6:34               ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-05-06  6:43                 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-06  7:52                   ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-05-06 10:51                     ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-06 11:37                       ` David Marchand
2020-05-06 11:44                         ` Maxime Coquelin

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