2016-05-19 17:28, Ferruh Yigit: > On 5/19/2016 9:33 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-05-18 18:10, Ferruh Yigit: > >> Add rte_eth_from_vhost() API to create vhost PMD dynamically from > >> applications. > > > > How is it different from rte_eth_dev_attach() calling rte_eal_vdev_init()? > > > > When used rte_eth_dev_attach(), application also needs to do: > rte_eth_dev_configure() > rte_eth_rx_queue_setup() > rte_eth_tx_queue_setup() > rte_eth_dev_start() > > rte_eth_from_vhost() does these internally, easier to use for applications.
This argument is not sufficient. We are not going to add new APIs just for wrapping others.
