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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ethdev: add helper functions to get
	eth_dev and dev private data
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:00:28 +0100
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2016-02-17 14:20, Ferruh Yigit:
> This is to provide abstraction and reduce global variable access.
> 
> Global variable rte_eth_devices kept exported to not break ABI.
> 
> Bonding driver not selected on purpose, just it seems it is using 
> rte_eth_devices heavily.
> 
> There are a few more usage in drivers but they left as it is because they
> are in fast path code.

What is the benefit of these functions if you do not plan to remove the
global variables later?

Anyway this discussion targets the release 16.07.