On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:17:47AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:11:01 -0300 > Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 01:48:36AM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > My vote is to work with udev and not try to replace it. > > > > > > Driverctl works well. Just not for bifurcated driver > > > > I second that. We also have other system configs to care about like > > kernel parameters and hugepage configuration which I think follow the > > same idea that they are system wide configs and should not be managed > > by DPDK itself. > > Maybe teach driverctl (and udev) to handle bifurcated drivers.
I don't know the challenges to tech driverctl to handle bifurcated drivers but I would agree that it should be our first place to look at. > Unfortunately, vendors are very fractured on how network devices are managed. You mean distros? hw vendors? all vendors? :) Perhaps if community focus on something, then they might follow at some point. -- Flavio