On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 9:14 PM Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > rte_device name only points at some location where the name is stored. > > In general this storage is in the bus object or (in some buses) the devarg > > that > > resulted in the rte_device object creation. > > > > If we won't store the name in the bus object, then we lose the ability to > > release the name later. > > This is probably fine as long as we never release rte_vmbus_device objects > > which is the case atm. > > But I don't understand why vmbus should be an exception when comparing > > to other buses. > > I don’t understand why you want to put a name there if it's never used > outside vmbus_scan_one().
Since you don't care about releasing rte_vmbus_device objects, I'll rework as you suggest. -- David Marchand
