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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: ethdev: replacement for rte_pci_dev_ids.h?
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:16:22 +0200
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2016-04-07 18:10, Sean Hope:
> Hello,
> 
> I see that rte_pci_dev_ids.h has been removed.

No it has not been removed (yet):
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h

> We are using it on our product to get supported device ids.
> 
> I understand the desire to move that data out of a central place and into
> each driver. Any chance that instead of living in a .c file, that each
> driver could hold it in a .h file so that it could be easily consumed by
> an external program?

Yes there is a plan to move the PCI ids in the drivers but
we need to make a tool to retrieve the ids from the ELF files.
Why do you want to get them from a .h file?