09/01/2018 11:31, Mordechay Haimovsky: > From: Guo, Jia [mailto:jia....@intel.com] > > On 1/9/2018 8:39 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > At last there is the kernel binding effort - this one will probably > > > be ignored for 18.02, because it is another huge topic. > > > Without bothering with kernel binding, we can at least remove a device, > > > get a notification, and eventually re-add it. It is a good first step. > > > Anyway your testpmd patch tests exactly this scenario (totally new > > > devices are not seen). > > > > i will separate it for you all to benefit for review. for kernel > > binding, i just let it automatically compare with the first time manually > > binding, and it is the part of he hot plug flow. so i suggest to review > > more about that if it is not side effect and workable, beg for keep on. > > This will not work for Mellanox which uses several drivers and services > in order to map the device and device queues to user space. For example, > the mlx4 PMD (PMD for ConnectX-3 devices) requires that mlx4_core mlx4_en > and mlx4_ib drivers to be loaded, and for RDM -core user-space libraries > and daemons to be loaded.
Yes automatic binding is a feature which requires more work. It cannot be ready for 18.02.
