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From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] eal: move virtual device probing into a
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:50:16 +0530
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On Wednesday 15 February 2017 07:43 PM, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 February 2017 03:32 PM, Jan Blunck wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> +
>>> +static struct rte_bus rte_vdev_bus = {
>>> +       .scan = vdev_scan,
>>> +       .probe = vdev_probe,
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +RTE_REGISTER_BUS_LATE(virtual, rte_vdev_bus);
>>>
>>
>> Does it matter if VDEV buses are registered before or after other
>> buses?
>
> Yes, it does. Also see commit f4ce209a ("eal: postpone vdev initialization").
>
>> Either way, the callbacks would be called in the order specified
>> in EAL.
>
> They are called in order of registration. That is why this defers the
> registration of the vdev bus.

Agree - I realized the problem in my statement after I had sent the email.