From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/16] Removed PCI ID table from igb_uio Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 15:13:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1444994.s4JW68cLD9@xps13> References: <1400514709-24087-14-git-send-email-anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Anatoly Burakov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1400514709-24087-14-git-send-email-anatoly.burakov-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 2014-05-19 16:51, Anatoly Burakov: > Note that since igb_uio no longer has a PCI ID list, it can now be > bound to any device, not just those explicitly supported by DPDK. In > other words, it now behaves similar to PCI stub, VFIO and other generic > PCI drivers. I wonder if we could replace igb_uio by uio_pci_generic? > Therefore to bind a new device to igb_uio, the user will now have to > first write its PCI ID to "new_id" file inside the igb_uio driver > directory, and only then write the PCI ID to "bind". This will be > reflected in later changes to PCI binding script as well. Please explain in the commit log why you are removing PCI ids from igb_uio. -- Thomas