On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:49 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:43:29PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > On 9/24/2020 6:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > We should be encouraging the use of vfio_pci for developers, not telling > > > them to use igb_uio. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> > Module name is 'vfio_pci' but driver name is 'vfio-pci', for this document I > > guess all instances should be 'vfio-pci'. > > > > Yes, I believe all instances of vfio_pci should be replaced with the "-"ed > version. With that change: > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> Indeed, passing vfio_pci fails: $ sudo ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=vfio_pci 0000:01:00.0 Error: bind failed for 0000:01:00.0 - Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio_pci/bind Error: unbind failed for 0000:01:00.0 - Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/drivers//unbind $ ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --status |grep 0000:01:00.0 0000:01:00.0 '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection 10fb' drv=vfio-pci unused=ixgbe Fixed and applied. -- David Marchand