Hi Ferruh,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:55 PM
> To: Tan, Jianfeng; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Liu, Yuanhan; sta...@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix missing driver name
>
> On 1/18/2017 1:49 PM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> > Hi Ferruh,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 7:53 PM
> >> To: Tan, Jianfeng; dev@dpdk.org
> >> Cc: Liu, Yuanhan; sta...@dpdk.org
> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix missing driver
> name
> >>
> >> On 1/18/2017 11:44 AM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> >>> API rte_eth_dev_info_get() fills driver name according to drv_name
> >>> of rte_eth_dev_data. But we have not fill such info in virtio_user.
> >>>
> >>> We do not use the same one with virtio device as some applications
> >>> might depend on driver name to differetiate kinds of devices, such
> >>> as VPP.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: e9efa4d93821 ("net/virtio-user: add new virtual PCI driver")
> >>> CC: sta...@dpdk.org
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c | 1 +
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >> b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>> index c877968..110f6a9 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>> @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ virtio_user_eth_dev_alloc(const char *name)
> >>> hw->use_simple_rxtx = 0;
> >>> hw->virtio_user_dev = dev;
> >>> data->dev_private = hw;
> >>> + data->drv_name = "virtio_user PMD";
> >>
> >> How driver naming done changed in next-net.
> >> Please check any other virtual driver in next-net for sample.
> >
> > Thank you for the info. And it seems that it's already fixed by that patch.
>
> That patch modified during merge, can you please confirm the latest
> version in the repo?
Just checked latest master repo, this problem has been fixed by commit
73db5badb04 ("net: align ethdev and eal driver names"). Thanks to David
Marchand.
Yuanhan, do you think this patch can be applied to the stable repo?
Thanks,
Jianfeng
