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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Interface name after bound to IGB
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:03:52 +0000
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 08:00:02PM +0530, Shankari Vaidyalingam wrote:
> Hi
> 
> By what name is the NIC port identified after it is bound to the igb_uio
> driver (i.e after it becomes a DPDK interface)
> I'm asking this question because the interface does not get displayed in
> the output of the "ifconfig" after it gets bound to igb_uio driver.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Shankari.V

Identified where, or to what? It still maintains the same PCI bus-device-function
which can be used to identify it, if that is what you mean.

/Bruce