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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] doc: update poll mode driver guide
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:50:05 +0100
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2016-10-14 17:35, Bernard Iremonger:
> --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/poll_mode_drv.rst
> @@ -356,3 +356,9 @@ Some additions in the metadata scheme are as follows:
>  An example where queue numbers are used is as follows: ``tx_q7_bytes`` which
>  indicates this statistic applies to queue number 7, and represents the number
>  of transmitted bytes on that queue.
> +
> +Extended ixgbe PMD API
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +In DPDK release v16.11 an API for ixgbe specific functions has been added to the ixgbe PMD.
> +The declarations for the API functions are in the header ``rte_pmd_ixgbe.h``.

NACK
I think we should not add driver-specific details in this high-level and
generic doc.