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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce API change for virtual device
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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:38:33 +0200
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2016-07-05 14:04, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 7/4/2016 3:50 PM, Pablo de Lara wrote:
> > +* The rte_eal_vdev_init function will be changed in 16.11 to return
> > +  the port/device id of the device created, instead of 0, when it has been
> > +  initialized successfully, so user can use the returned value straight away
> > +  to call all the device functions that require that parameter.
> 
> There is another API rte_eth_dev_attach(), which returns port_id, and is
> a common wrapper both for pdev and vdev.
> So with proper devargs this API calls rte_eal_vdev_init() and returns
> port_id (set in argument) without any extra side effect.

I think rte_eth_dev_attach() should be removed from ethdev.
Hotplugging a device belongs to device management, i.e. EAL.