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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Add the class_id support in pci probe
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 08:21:26 -0700
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On Wed, 11 May 2016 14:08:15 +0800
Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com> wrote:

> This patch is used to add the class_id (class_code,
> subclass_code, programming_interface) support for
> pci_device probe. With this patch, it will be
> flexible for users to probe a class of devices
> by class_id.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com>

I like this, and it is necessary but since rte_pci_id is a visible
data structure it causes ABI breakage.