Hi Jan, > -----Original Message----- > From: jblu...@gmail.com [mailto:jblu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jan > Blunck > Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 9:05 PM > To: Tan, Jianfeng > Cc: dev; Richardson, Bruce; Ananyev, Konstantin; De Lara Guarch, Pablo; > Thomas Monjalon; y...@fridaylinux.org; Maxime Coquelin; Tetsuya Mukawa; > Yigit, Ferruh > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/12] bus/vdev: scan and probe vdev in > secondary processes > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com> > wrote: > > Base on primary/secondary communication channel, we add vdev action > > to scan virtual devices in secondary processes. > > > > This doesn't need to be in vdev. You application could just hotplug > the drivers with exactly the same parameters as the primary process. > The driver need to be aware of the primary/secondary process split > though. >
This patch can make sure the virtual devices can be discovered and attached automatically by the secondary process. Of course, we can also add parameter to indicate if a vdev expects to be discovered and initialized automatically. How do you think? Thanks, Jianfeng
