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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] eal: internalize devargs parsing
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:28:28 +0200
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09/07/2017 11:28, Jan Blunck:
> This is going to get cleaned up in future releases so lets not expose
> this API unnecessarily.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
> ---
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
> @@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ DPDK_17.08 {
>  EXPERIMENTAL {
>  	global:
>  
> -	rte_eal_devargs_parse;
>  	rte_eal_hotplug_add;
>  	rte_eal_hotplug_remove;

We need to expose it temporarily as experimental in order to let
the failsafe driver calling it.
When reworked in 17.11, this function or an equivalent should allow
failsafe (and maybe bonding) to parse slave declaration.