The new Global Device Syntax [1] is used to identify a device with full bus, class and driver description, example: -a bus=pci,addr=82:00.0/class=eth/driver=mlx5,...
This patchset fixes bugs and enable global device syntax with backward compatibility by: - unify devargs memory buffer cleanup - parse name from bus callback - try new global syntax parsing firstly and fallback to legacy parsing. History: V1: - Inital version V2: - add devargs.src as complete source dev string - change devargs.data to scratch buffer - add rte_devargs_free() to release scratch memory - change name policy to align with rte_eth_iterator_init() - remove PCI bus fix as name already resolved in rte_devargs_parse(). V3: - remove devargs.src - rename rte_devargs_free() to rte_devargs_reset() - add bus callback api to resolve devargs. [1] Global Device Syntax: https://www.dpdk.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/am-07-DPDK-hotplug-20180905.pdf [2] RFC: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14378 [3] V1: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14610 [4] V2: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14816 Xueming Li (5): devargs: unify scratch buffer storage devargs: fix memory leak on parsing error kvargs: add get by key function bus: add device arguments name parsing API devargs: parse global device syntax app/test-pmd/config.c | 3 +- app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 5 +- drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c | 1 + drivers/bus/pci/pci_params.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++ drivers/bus/pci/private.h | 14 +++++ drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c | 10 ++-- drivers/bus/vdev/vdev_params.c | 43 +++++++++++++++ drivers/bus/vdev/vdev_private.h | 15 ++++++ drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c | 3 +- drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c | 2 +- examples/multi_process/hotplug_mp/commands.c | 6 +-- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c | 9 ++-- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c | 57 ++++++++++++++------ lib/librte_eal/common/hotplug_mp.c | 6 +-- lib/librte_eal/include/rte_bus.h | 19 +++++++ lib/librte_eal/include/rte_devargs.h | 18 +++++-- lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_exports.def | 1 + lib/librte_eal/version.map | 1 + lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 8 +-- lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c | 20 +++++++ lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h | 21 ++++++++ lib/librte_kvargs/version.map | 1 + 22 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1