From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: kernel binding of devices + hotplug Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:17:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20180418111747.1a0033a1@xeon-e3> References: <2407757.yEAnF6RcS7@xps> <20180418141101.GB2549@plex.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Monjalon , dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, pmatilai@redhat.com, david.marchand@6wind.com, jia.guo@intel.com, matan@mellanox.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com To: Flavio Leitner Return-path: Received: from mail-pl0-f42.google.com (mail-pl0-f42.google.com [209.85.160.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAB17CB6 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:17:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pl0-f42.google.com with SMTP id c7-v6so1600719plr.5 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:17:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20180418141101.GB2549@plex.lan> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:11:01 -0300 Flavio Leitner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 01:48:36AM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > My vote is to work with udev and not try to replace it. > > > > Driverctl works well. Just not for bifurcated driver > > I second that. We also have other system configs to care about like > kernel parameters and hugepage configuration which I think follow the > same idea that they are system wide configs and should not be managed > by DPDK itself. Maybe teach driverctl (and udev) to handle bifurcated drivers. Unfortunately, vendors are very fractured on how network devices are managed.