From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Declan Doherty Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/bonding: remove all slaves on close Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:06:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1491479991-26802-1-git-send-email-i.maximets@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Heetae Ahn , Eric Kinzie , Bernard Iremonger , Jan Blunck To: Ilya Maximets , dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2989B559A for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:06:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1491479991-26802-1-git-send-email-i.maximets@samsung.com> 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 06/04/17 12:59, Ilya Maximets wrote: > Some applications like OVS knows nothing about the > device type and wants to use same API to work with > all of them. But bond_pmd, unlike other pmds, requires > additional step (removing of all the slaves) before > closing the device. > > In fact that bond_pmd automatically adds all the > devices from kvargs to bonding on configuration it > also should remove all of them on close. > > This change is intended to have the same API for physical > and virtual devices. It allows us to handle virtual > devices in OVS in a common way. > > Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets > --- ... > Acked-by: Declan Doherty