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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devargs: fix policy check in
	rte_eal_devargs_add
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:36:47 +0200
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02/08/2017 19:12, Gaetan Rivet:
> Do not fail upon detecting a set bus configuration when adding an
> rte_devargs. i.e. adding a blacklisted PCI device while the bus is
> configured in whitelist mode.
> 
> This failure condition has been introduced when the bus policies
> were implemented. This implementation however was meant to strictly
> follow the existing API. This check was not and should not be performed
> until the current API has been properly deprecated.
> 
> Fixes: 02823c1db0bc ("devargs: parse bus policies")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>

Adding a precision:
The same kind of check is already done when parsing EAL options.

Applied, thanks