Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] net/ring: use EAL APIs in PMD specific API

2017-06-12 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 03:13:53PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > When ring PMD created via PMD specific API instead of EAL abstraction > it is missing the virtual device creation done by EAL vdev. > > And this makes eth_dev unusable exact same as other PMDs used, because > of some missing fields, l

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] net/ring: use EAL APIs in PMD specific API

2017-06-12 Thread Ferruh Yigit
When ring PMD created via PMD specific API instead of EAL abstraction it is missing the virtual device creation done by EAL vdev. And this makes eth_dev unusable exact same as other PMDs used, because of some missing fields, like rte_device->name. Now API calls EAL APIs to create ring PMDs. Sign