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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 2/2] eal: add uevent pass and process
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:29:48 +0100
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15/01/2018 11:52, Guo, Jia:
> On 1/15/2018 7:24 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 11/01/2018 15:05, Jeff Guo:
> >> +enum rte_dev_subsystem {
> >> +	RTE_DEV_SUBSYSTEM_UIO,
> >> +	RTE_DEV_SUBSYSTEM_VFIO,
> >> +	RTE_DEV_SUBSYSTEM_PCI,
> >> +	RTE_DEV_SUBSYSTEM_MAX
> >> +};
> > 
> > I don't think PCI and UIO/VFIO should be described at the same level.
> > Can you re-use the enum rte_kernel_driver?
> 
> rte_kernel_driver might be not qualify for that use, since that is the event sumsystem, it include pci/uio/vfio, such strings to identify each subsystem. i will modify it to be rte_dev_event_subsystem.

I don't understand this classification.
A device can be both PCI and VFIO.