From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] pci: split match and probe function Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:31:36 +0100 Message-ID: <6385545.1JoApMrEe4@xps13> References: <1484647774-28984-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> <1484660264-6531-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> <1484660264-6531-4-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Shreyansh Jain Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (mail-wm0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C096B1094 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:31:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id r144so247856443wme.1 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:31:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1484660264-6531-4-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2017-01-17 19:07, Shreyansh Jain: > +static int > +rte_eal_pci_detach_dev(struct rte_pci_driver *dr, > + struct rte_pci_device *dev) > +{ > + int ret; > + struct rte_pci_addr *loc; > + > + if ((dr == NULL) || (dev == NULL)) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + ret = rte_pci_match(dr, dev); I do not understand this function. The driver should be known by the device at this stage. Why specifying a driver as parameter? I know it is not new in this series, but pci_detach_all_drivers(struct rte_pci_device *dev) makes no sense to me.