Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] usertools/dpdk-devbind: add support for PCI wildcards

["Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>]

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Thanks,
Anatoly

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 6:05 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v4] usertools/dpdk-devbind: add support for PCI wildcards
> 
> When binding or unbinding a range of devices, it can be useful to use
> wildcards to specify the devices rather than repeating the same prefix
> multiple times. We can use the python "glob" module to give us this
> functionality - at least for PCI devices - by checking /sys for matching files.
> 
> Examples of use from my system:
> 
>     ./dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci 80:04.*
>     ./dpdk-devbind.py -u 80:04.[2-7]
> 
> The first example binds eight devices, 80:04.0..80:04.7, to vfio-pci. The
> second then unbinds six of those devices, 80:04.2..80:04.7, from any driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 
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