On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:43:39PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon 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). > I'm not convinced at all that that is the direction to go. I instead would prefer to see all binding happen outside DPDK. I believe having udev or similar manage bindings, set up via e.g driverctl[1], is a far better path.
Just my 2c. /Bruce [1] https://gitlab.com/driverctl/driverctl