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From: Finn Christensen <fc@napatech.com>
Subject: Re: standardize device identification
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 11:09:31 +0000
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
    Sent: 5. januar 2018 09:40
    To: Finn Christensen <fc@napatech.com>
    Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>; Adrien Mazarguil
    <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>; Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>;
    Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>; stephen@networkplumber.org;
    ferruh.yigit@intel.com
    Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] standardize device identification
   =20
    05/01/2018 08:52, Finn Christensen:
    > From: Thomas
    > > It may look like this:
    > >
    > >
    bus=3DBUS_NAME,id=3DBUS_ID/class=3DCLASS_NAME,dev_port=3DPORT_NUM,
    > >
    mac=3DMAC_ADDRESS/driver=3DDRIVER_NAME,driverspecificproperty=3DVALUE
    [...]
    > We also need to distinguish between multiple ports sitting on same PC=
I
    bus ID.
    > and from our point of view, this will fully cover our needs.
   =20
    Which property can help to distinguish Napatech ports?
    Can you use class=3Deth,dev_port=3DX ?
    The dev_port property will use /sys/class/net/DEV/dev_port on Linux. Is=
 it
    OK for you?

Actually, what we were thinking of was using the mac property in the class=
=20
category to distinguish our ports.
For instance:=20
	-w bus=3Dpci,id=3D0000:01:00.0/class=3Deth,mac=3D00:11:22:33:44:55
or simply:
	-w class=3Deth,mac=3D00:11:22:33:44:55

We will not be able to support the dev_port property, that will not work fo=
r us.
At least not for now.

Regards,
Finn