On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:51:03 +0200 Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.ri...@6wind.com> wrote:
> Add a new EAL option enabling manual probing in the EAL. > This command line option will configure the EAL so that buses > will not trigger their probe step on their own. > > Applications are then expected to hotplug devices as they see fit. > > Devices declared on the command line by the user (using -w and --vdev), > will be probed using the hotplug API, in the order they are declared. > > This has the effect of offering a way for users to control probe order > of their devices, for drivers requiring it. > > Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.ri...@6wind.com> I have no problems with the patch, but it would help if there was better way to handle device naming policy in DPDK. Applications that depend on particular port number are prone to get broken by changes in surrounding OS or hardware environment. Just like Linux applications that are built to depend on "eth0"; which is unfortunately all too common.
