On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 04:45:32PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> After calling rte_event_dev_info_get() the ".dev" field of the info
> structure should have a pointer to the underlying device, allowing the
> user to e.g. get the device name using using rte_dev_name(info.dev).
>
> The distributed software eventdev info structure did not return a correct
> device pointer, though, instead returning NULL, which caused crashes
> getting "rte_dev_name". Initializing the dev pointer inside the
> "eventdev" struct in the device probe function fixes this by ensuring we
> have a valid pointer to return in info_get calls.
>
> Fixes: 46a186b1f0c5 ("event/dsw: add device registration and build
> system") Cc: mattias.ronnb...@ericsson.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> ---
Since checkpatch has flagged a duplicated word in my commit log above,
copy-pasted from the equivalent event/sw patch fix, I'm sending a v2 of the
two together in a patchset. See thread [1] for that v2.
/Bruce
[1]
https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20231017155148.153095-1-bruce.richard...@intel.com/
