From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BE8378B; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:03:52 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Nov 2018 08:03:52 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,499,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="104027294" Received: from aburakov-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.252.9.8]) ([10.252.9.8]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Nov 2018 08:03:50 -0800 To: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org References: From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:03:49 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] devbind: check for lspci X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:03:53 -0000 On 07-Nov-18 4:01 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 11/7/2018 1:56 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote: >> On some distributions (such as CentOS 7) lspci may not be installed >> by default, causing exceptions which are difficult to interpret. >> >> Fix devbind script to check if lspci is installed at script startup. > > I guess we need lspci for `--status`, bind/unbind can be done without `lspci`, > what about adding check only display path? This is actually incorrect. While we *use* the lspci output only on display paths, we actually gather info about devices using lspci in get_device_details(). So, i'll leave the code as is and just fix the package name for v2. -- Thanks, Anatoly