port: allow attaching already probed devices #210
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At startup, we pass -a 0000:00:00.0 to rte_eal_init() to disable automatic PCI probing. However, this only affects the PCI bus devices. Other buses (e.g. FSMLC) are not affected by this argument and are always probed in rte_eal_init().
When configuring a port with such a device, we get an error from the API saying that the port is already attached to another interface:
Instead of iterating over the DPDK probed devices, look at grout ports to determine whether a port matching this devargs value is already configured.
If we cannot find one, check if the device has already been probed and only probe it if it was not.