On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 07:56:16AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-07-11 13:33, Yuanhan Liu:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:31:27PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 2016-04-20 14:43, David Marchand:
> > > > test application and kni still want to know e1000 pci devices.
> > > > So let's create headers in the driver that will be used by them.
> > >
> > > There is also an usage of ixgbe ID for the broken bypass API.
> > >
> > > Sharing those PCI ids outside of the drivers was really a wrong idea.
> > > So this a plan to get rid of them:
> > >
> > > 1/ remove need in PCI autotest (done: http://dpdk.org/commit/1dbba165)
> > > 2/ move PCI ids in bnx2x, bnxt, e1000, enic, fm10k, i40e, virtio, vmxnet3
> > > 3/ remove KNI ethtool (only igb/ixgbe support)
> > > 4/ remove bypass API or move it to ixgbe specific API
> > > 5/ move remaining PCI ids in igb and ixgbe drivers
> > >
> > > Please driver maintainers, move your PCI ids in your drivers as soon as
> > > possible. Thanks
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > I'm not quite sure I understood it well: are you asking us to resend
> > what David has already send, say me for resending the virtio part?
> >
> > If so, what's the point of that? What's worse, it's likely to fail
> > apply (due to conflicts), as every one of us make a patch based on
> > the same base while touching some same files.
>
> Good point.
> There were some changes since the patches from David (and a new bnxt).
> That's why I was thinking to ask maintainers to take care of this change.
> But maybe it's better to do the change in one patchset.
Yes, I'd think so.
--yliu
> David, ok to refresh these patches?
