On 05/22/2017 05:39 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
Hi Chas,
On 5/17/2017 7:03 PM, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
Provide an accessor for the name of the underlying linux interface
used by the AF_PACKET-based interface.
This patch provides a PMD specific API to get PMD internal data
(internals->if_name).
I think we should avoid PMD specific APIs if possible.
internals->if_name is provided by application, as devargs to af_packet
(iface=..), so app already knows port_id -> if_name mapping.
OR
With rte_eth_dev_info_get() af_packet returns the if_index for
underlying interface, it is possible to use if_indextoname() to get ifname.
Because above methods exists to get if_name, I think this API is not
necessary.
I will go this route then.
Signed-off-by: Charles (Chas) Williams <ciwil...@brocade.com>
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