08/06/2017 02:00, Gaetan Rivet: > This new bus takes as devices kernel netdevices. > It offers an API for drivers to register a translation layer that would > transform the netdev name to one their regular PMD would be able to > probe. > > This is PoC. It currently only works for MLX4 and MLX5 PMDs as they were > bifurcated and had very little work to do otherwise. > > The planned feature is for at least all PCI drivers, be able to unbind > the device from its kmod and bind it to a choosen IO module, prior to > probing. > > Additional possible feature would be a close integration with eventually > NCI-like lib, to transparently capture kernel devices, keep a control > interface present and bind / unbind the underlying hardware function as > necessary.
I'm sorry, I do not understand the description. Please start with a real problem statement and explain how it is solved. Thanks
