On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 01:13:37PM +0000, Nicolas Pernas Maradei wrote: > On 07/11/14 12:55, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > >It's by design. If you add a vdev, you want to use it and there is no > >reason to whitelist it, and especially no reason to blacklist a device > >you created for your usage. > > > >Do you agree? > > Hi Thomas, > > Generally speaking you probably won't want to white list a virtual device - > just using it. However it does seem an inconsistency in the design that you > could add virtual devices but you can't white list them. If they are added > to the main device list they should be treated just as another device. > > In our particular use case we want to white list a pcap device to ensure > that it is the only available port for testing. > > Thanks, > Nico. >
Then you create the pcap device with --vdev, and simply don't load the pmds for any of your physical devices (or just don't use pci-whitelist at all if you're doing a static build). If you do that, then the corresponding niantic driver won't initialize any of the hardware, you'll only get the pcap port. Neil
