05/04/2018 23:03, Stephen Hemminger: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:43:39 +0200 > Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > > 05/04/2018 21:13, Stephen Hemminger: > > > Small script to rebind netvsc kernel device to Hyper-V > > > networking PMD. It could be integrated in dpdk-bind, but dpdk-bind > > > is focused on PCI, and that would get messy. > > > > > > Eventually, this functionality will be built into netvsc driver > > > (see vdev_netvsc as an example). > > > > I believe we should avoid creating such script. > > The direction to go, for hotplug, is to remove dpdk-devbind.py, > > and implement kernel binding in PMDs (with EAL helpers). > > > > In order to make this change happen, we should not > > add this hv_uio_setup.sh script. > > Yes, this is a temporary script like dpdk-bind, want to get rid of it > and do everything inside driver. That is the next step.
If this is temporary, it is a step in the wrong direction which could confuse users. If it becomes definitive (design discussion in progress), then it should be merged in dpdk-devbind.py.
