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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.3] tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py: Verbosely warn
	the user on bind
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:14:31 +0100
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2015-12-11 11:20, Aaron Conole:
> DPDK ports are only detected during the EAL initialization. After that, any
> new DPDK ports which are bound will not be visible to the application.
> 
> The dpdk_nic_bind.py can be a bit more helpful to let users know that DPDK
> enabled applications will not find rebound ports until after they have been
> restarted.

I think it's better to improve hotplug and allow hot binding.
A work is in progress towards this direction.
David, can you confirm?
Is this patch still valuable in the meantime?

> --- a/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
> +++ b/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
> @@ -344,8 +344,10 @@ def bind_one(dev_id, driver, force):
>              dev["Driver_str"] = "" # clear driver string
>  
>      # if we are binding to one of DPDK drivers, add PCI id's to that driver
> +    bDpdkDriver = False

Please do not use camel case.