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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: make rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:13:14 +0100
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 03:06:24PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
> 
> The function rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port is good way to have all
> drivers using same function and solves several hotplug related
> bugs from drivers not checking attached flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Just yesterday I was working on a patch to do the same thing! 

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>