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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: remove vdev probe by dev args
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:02:34 +0200
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Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>,
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09/07/2017 09:54, Jan Blunck:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > Please Jan, could you comment?
> >
> 
> My intention was to provide a way that devices can have arbitrary
> names. Ferruh correctly pointed out that this is undocumented and
> hidden functionality. Lets apply this and I can rework this if it
> becomes necessary later.
> 
> > 09/06/2017 11:21, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> On 6/8/2017 9:45 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >> > 10/05/2017 13:01, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> >> Virtual device/driver probing done via name.
> >> >>
> >> >> A new alternative method introduced to probe the device with providing
> >> >> driver name in devargs as "driver=<driver_name>".
> >> >>
> >> >> This patch removes alternative method and fixes virtual device usages
> >> >> with proper device names.
> >> >>
> >> >> Fixes: 87c3bf29c642 ("test: do not short-circuit null device creation")
> >> >> Fixes: d39670086a63 ("eal: parse driver argument before probing drivers")
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Applied