On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 06:35:59 -0700 [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to ask how one could retrieve the name of a NIC's vendor using > the PCI vendor ID. > For example, is there any mapping between PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL and a const > char* that returns e.g., "Intel"? > > Moreover, why are the vendor IDs redefined by DPDK instead of being reused > from Linux > <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/pci_ids.h>? > It would be more convenient if a single RTE library could expose those IDs > to the applications. Currently I see those IDs being spread across the > different drivers. > > Thanks in advance,
There already is a standard library for this (libpci). I see no reason to add this to DPDK.
