23/12/2017 03:06, Stephen Hemminger: > Why does this need to be a PMD? It needs to be a driver on top of buses.
> Maybe we need some platform infrastructure? What would be such infrastructure? A new driver type? Something like drivers/platform/? I am not sure it is required for this driver given it is most probably only a temporary driver waiting for the NetVSC PMD and a full hotplug support in DPDK internals. I think we should create such new infrastructure only when we are sure it is needed permanently for some drivers. > My definition of PMD is it can send and receive It is the definition of an ethdev driver, yes.
