From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Flavio Leitner Subject: Re: kernel binding of devices + hotplug Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:54:11 -0300 Message-ID: <20180418185411.GK2549@plex.lan> References: <2407757.yEAnF6RcS7@xps> <20180418141101.GB2549@plex.lan> <20180418111747.1a0033a1@xeon-e3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Monjalon , dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, david.marchand@6wind.com, jia.guo@intel.com, matan@mellanox.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail-qk0-f182.google.com (mail-qk0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0EA6CD2 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:54:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-qk0-f182.google.com with SMTP id s70so2857306qks.13 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180418111747.1a0033a1@xeon-e3> 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, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:17:47AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 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. I don't know the challenges to tech driverctl to handle bifurcated drivers but I would agree that it should be our first place to look at. > Unfortunately, vendors are very fractured on how network devices are managed. You mean distros? hw vendors? all vendors? :) Perhaps if community focus on something, then they might follow at some point. -- Flavio