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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: ixgbe-specific bypass functions
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:23:38 +0100
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Hi Bernard,

You moved some VF functions to ixgbe.h.
Do you think we could do the same kind of work to move
bypass functions from ethdev to ixgbe API?
I would see a 2 steps move:

1/ in 17.02
* copy functions in ixgbe.h
* use them in testpmd
* deprecate ethdev functions

2/ in 17.05
* remove bypass functions from ethdev