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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/11] eal: pci: introduce
	RTE_KDRV_VFIO_NOIOMMUi driver mode
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:39:23 +0100
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2016-01-27 21:02, Santosh Shukla:
> 1. virtio currently works for vfio+noiommu and likely will work for
> vfio+iommu in near future.
> 2. So remove __noiommu suffix and always use default.
> 3. Introduce vfio resource parsing global function, That function
> suppose to do parsing for default vfio case and for vfio-noiommu case.
> This function will be used by pmd drivers for resource parsing purpose
> example virtio.
> 
> Yuan won't be happy with 3) I guess, because he wanted to get rid of
> interface parsing from pmd driver.
> 
> Thomas, if 1/2/3/ addresses your concern then I'll spin the series,

I agree with 1/ and 2/.
Please, could you explain why 3/ is needed?