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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] pci: allow shared device instances.
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:09:35 +0200
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Hi,

09/05/2017 16:57, Radu Nicolau:
> Updated PCI initialization code to allow devices to be shared across multiple PMDs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>

I was waiting the day when we have a device shared
by two different interfaces.
Note that some Mellanox and Chelsio devices already instantiate
two ethdev ports per PCI device.

Please explain your idea behind this "shared" flag.
What is your exact need?
Do you think it is the best solution?