Re: [dts] [PATCH V1] fix FreeBSD get mac addr error

["Liu, Yong" <yong.liu@intel.com>]

Gang,
Unload driver is very critical action, some cases will use this function to get mac address.
Thus will lead to all suites after these cases.

Please do this kind of action in upper layer which handler the overall execution.

Thanks,
Marvin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dts [mailto:dts-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of xu,gang
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 2:11 PM
> To: dts@dpdk.org
> Cc: Xu, GangX <gangx.xu@intel.com>
> Subject: [dts] [PATCH V1] fix FreeBSD get mac addr error
> 
> get mac addr need restore interface
> 
> Signed-off-by: xu,gang <gangx.xu@intel.com>
> ---
>  nics/net_device.py | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/nics/net_device.py b/nics/net_device.py
> index 4861145..9edf6f6 100644
> --- a/nics/net_device.py
> +++ b/nics/net_device.py
> @@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ class NetDevice(object):
>          """
>          Get the MAC by the default way on Freebsd.
>          """
> +        out = self.__send_expect('kldstat', '# ')
> +        if 'nic_uio.ko' in out:
> +            self.__send_expect('kldunload nic_uio.ko', '# ')
> +            self.__send_expect('kldunload contigmem.ko', '# ')
> +
>          out = self.__send_expect('ifconfig %s' % intf, '# ')
>          rexp = r"ether ([\da-f:]*)"
>          pattern = re.compile(rexp)
> --
> 1.9.3