As per the comments in this code section, since there is a matching device, it is now its responsibility to manage the devargs we've just inserted. But the matching device ptr's devargs is still uninitialized or not pointing to the newest dev_args that were passed as a parameter to local_dev_probe(). This is needed particularly in the case when *probe is called again* on an already probed device as part of adding a representor port to an OVS switch(OVS-DPDK)
Fixes: 7e8b26650146 ("eal: fix hotplug add / remove") Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.ko...@broadcom.com> --- v1->v2: Incorporated suggestions from Gaetan Rivet drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c index 740a2cd..71b0a30 100644 --- a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c +++ b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c @@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ */ RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Unexpected device scan at %s!\n", filename); + else if (dev2->device.devargs != + dev->device.devargs) { + rte_devargs_remove(dev2->device.devargs); + pci_name_set(dev2); + } } free(dev); } -- 1.8.3.1