On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 03:23:27PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi John, > > 2014-04-10 10:41, John W. Linville: > > These PMDs were being initialized by the EAL layer, but many apps were > > relying on the return value of rte_pmd_init_all to indicate that > > ethernet interfaces were available for use. Move the initialization of > > the non-PCI PMDs to this centralized function to have all of the PMDs > > treated equally. > > > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> > > We are using constuctors to initialize these drivers. See the patches from > Olivier Matz. > The function rte_pmd_init_all() should be removed.
So long as you make DPDK-based apps not die when only using non-PCI (i.e. "virtual") PMDs, I'll be happy... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville at tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
