From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/16] Removed PCI ID table from igb_uio Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:11:08 +0900 Message-ID: <20140523081108.132009f7@samsung-9> References: <1400514709-24087-14-git-send-email-anatoly.burakov@intel.com> <1444994.s4JW68cLD9@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1444994.s4JW68cLD9@xps13> 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" On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:13:49 +0200 Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 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? Not as is. I am strarting a new driver for upstream kernel based of pci_generic plus igb_uio. After discussion with Greg KH, doing a new driver seems like best idea. PCI generic driver as is does not do interrupts, and does not claim PCI resources from kernel.