28/09/2021 10:29, David Marchand:

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:15 AM Xueming Li [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

When parsing a devargs, try to parse using the global device syntax
first. Fallback on legacy syntax on error.

Example of new global device syntax:
 -a bus=pci,addr=82:00.0/class=eth/driver=mlx5,dv_flow_en=1

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Gaetan Rivet <redacted>

Starting with a virtio user port, I get a warning:

# dpdk-testpmd --vdev
net_virtio_user0,iface=test,path=/dev/vhost-net,queues=1
--log-level=pmd.net.virtio.*:debug -- -i
...
EAL: Unrecognized layer dev/vhost-net,queues=1
...

Am I doing something wrong?
If not, could you have a look?

The new global syntax is using the slash / as separator.
We should detect legit use of slash in a path.
Here, the value starts with a slash so it should be easy to ignore.
Another way is to consider slash only if followed by "class=" or "driver="