[ovs-dev] [PATCH] redhat: add vfio udev rules

[Russell Bryant]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
> This commit builds on the non-root ovs work and adds a udev rule which will
> automatically set the group permissions of vfio devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---
> Systemd folks say that this is not something that should be a part of systemd,
> but should be part of openvswitch.  I can make a case for either, but it seems
> it's probably an uphill battle to get it in through systemd.  This should be
> applied on branch-2.8, as it _could_ be considered a "fix" for
> commit e3e738a3d058 ("redhat: allow dpdk to also run as non-root user").
>
>  rhel/automake.mk                        | 1 +
>  rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in         | 8 ++++++++
>  rhel/usr_lib_udev_rules.d_91-vfio.rules | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 rhel/usr_lib_udev_rules.d_91-vfio.rules

Thanks, I added a fixes header and applied this to master and branch-2.8.