Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/5] iFPGA: Add Intel FPGA BUS Library

[Tan, Jianfeng]

On 5/3/2018 11:58 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
I have a question, hope you can clarify it a little bit. As I 
understand, this FPGA bus are used for AFU device enumeration, and 
each device on this bus needs a AFU driver to drive. But now we 
register AFU drivers, but enumerate rte_ifpga_device. Why? The reason 
I can think of, we need to maintain the relationship of fpga devices 
and afu devices. But I think similar problem would exist in dpaa and 
fslmc bus too. It is interesting to know the best practice on this. 

After offline discussion with Tianfei, I got that current implementation 
is to add a bus for afu devices and afu drivers. As for the bus name, 
ifpga bus or afu bus, I'm OK to both; only if you clarify the purpose of 
this bus is to manage afu devices and afu drivers.

Thanks,
Jianfeng