From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Gaëtan Rivet" <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:55:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27955989.SnTzdq47Er@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180921115312.sdegsb3ko2mbf7hc@bidouze.vm.6wind.com>
21/09/2018 13:53, Gaëtan Rivet:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:11:44PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 19/09/2018 18:03, Gaetan Rivet:
> > > The vdev bus parses a field "driver", matching
> > > a vdev driver name with one passed as follows:
> > >
> > > "bus=vdev,driver=xxxx"
> >
> > I think the property should be "name".
> > We already have a "driver" category.
> > So it may be "bus=vdev,name=mytap/driver=tap"
> >
> > Until now we were using the name of the driver as a prefix for
> > the device name because it was the only way of knowing the driver to use.
> > With a richer syntax like above, this restriction can be removed.
>
> Do you want all buses to read the driver= key and use it to know which
> driver to probe, or is it an exception of the vdev bus?
Good point. Yes, if the driver= key is provided, the bus should respect it.
It may allow to have 2 different drivers supporting the same PCI ids,
and let the user override the default driver to use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-21 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-30 13:41 [PATCH v1 00/13] Implement new devargs framework Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 01/13] bus/pci: implement device iteration and comparison Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 02/13] bus/pci: add device matching field id Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 03/13] bus/vdev: implement device iteration Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 05/13] ethdev: add private generic device iterator Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:09 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-31 10:22 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 06/13] ethdev: register ether layer as a class Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:09 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 07/13] ethdev: add device matching field name Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:10 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-30 13:41 ` [PATCH v1 08/13] app/testpmd: add show device command Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 09/13] bus/pci: pre-process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 10/13] bus/vdev: pre-process declarative vdev devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 11/13] bus/pci: process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 16:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-30 16:37 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 12/13] ethdev: process declarative eth devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-31 10:10 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-08-31 12:16 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-08-30 13:42 ` [PATCH v1 13/13] eal: add generic dev parameter Gaetan Rivet
2018-08-30 15:42 ` [PATCH v1 00/13] Implement new devargs framework Stephen Hemminger
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 " Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] bus/pci: implement device iteration and comparison Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] bus/pci: add device matching field id Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] bus/vdev: implement device iteration Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] bus/vdev: add device matching field driver Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 16:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-21 11:53 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-09-21 12:55 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] ethdev: add private generic device iterator Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 10:02 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] ethdev: register ether layer as a class Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] ethdev: add device matching field name Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 16:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-21 12:16 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2018-09-21 13:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] app/testpmd: add show device command Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] bus/pci: pre-process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] bus/vdev: pre-process declarative vdev devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] bus/pci: process declarative PCI devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] ethdev: process declarative eth devargs Gaetan Rivet
2018-09-20 10:11 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-09-19 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] eal: add generic dev parameter Gaetan Rivet
2018-10-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] Implement new devargs framework Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-19 5:43 ` [dpdk-dev] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=27955989.SnTzdq47Er@xps \
--to=thomas@monjalon.net \
--cc=dev@dpdk.org \
--cc=gaetan.rivet@6wind.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.