On 5/10/2017 3:34 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 4/11/2017 4:44 PM, Gaetan Rivet wrote: >> From: Jan Blunck <jblu...@infradead.org> >> >> In some cases the virtual device name should be totally different than >> the driver being used for the device. Therefore lets parse the devargs for >> the "driver" argument before probing drivers in vdev_probe_all_drivers(). > > Hi Gaetan, Jan, > > I have caught this while checking something else. > > This patch adds an alternative way for virtual devices to get probed > when device name is not proper. > > This probing can be done by having "driver=<driver_name>" in device > argument (not in name). > > Do we really need this alternative method, as far as I can see only user > of this is a unit test for bonding? > > This method is a little hidden/undocumented and a hack solution, I think > it is better and easier to fix virtual device names in unit test and > remove this, what do you think?
I am suggesting: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/24196/ > > Thanks, > ferruh > >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblu...@infradead.org> > <...> >
