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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/11] eal/pci: replace SYSFS_PCI_DEVICES
	with pci_get_sysfs_path()
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:44:32 +0200
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2016-05-10 20:13, Jan Viktorin:
> The SYSFS_PCI_DEVICES is a constant that makes the PCI testing difficult as
> it points to an absolute path. We remove using this constant and introducing
> a function pci_get_sysfs_path that gives the same value. However, the user can
> pass a SYSFS_PCI_DEVICES env variable to override the path. It is now possible
> to create a fake sysfs hierarchy for testing.

The headline do not convey the intent. It could be:
	pci: allow to override sysfs