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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] ethdev: increase port_id range
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:37:12 +0100
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On 9/25/2017 4:22 AM, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
> Extend port_id definition from uint8_t to uint16_t in lib and drivers
> data structures, specifically rte_eth_dev_data. Modify the APIs,
> drivers and app using port_id at the same time.
> 
> Fix some checkpatch issues from the original code and remove some
> unnecessary cast operations.
> 
> release_17_11 and deprecation have been updated in this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>


This is very hard to be sure everything covered. Also this patch will
cause lots of merge conflict against next-net.

I would suggest getting this patch as soon as possible, to give more
time to possible fixes.

Thanks,
ferruh