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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] ether: standardize getting the port by
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:35:11 +0100
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30/11/2017 18:15, Stephen Hemminger:
> Some thoughts.
> 1) Not all devices are PCI; look at recent VMBUS

Yes, we need a syntax which works for every devices.
I suggest to use the prefix "pci:" before the PCI id.
We need also a prefix and ids for NXP buses.
We could use "vmbus:" before VMBUS ids.
How VMBUS ids look like?

> 2) The name may have to be set before MAC address is determined on boot.

I don't understand this comment.
Do you mean MAC may be unknown when starting DPDK?

> 3) The names themselves are not persistent or human friendly. This is hard
>    see the effort udev goes to.

Yes udev has a syntax to identify devices. It can be inspiring.
Qemu may also be inspiring:
	https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/qdev-device-use.txt