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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/pcap: enable data path on secondary
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 21:13:33 +0000
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On 11/5/2018 9:08 PM, Qi Zhang wrote:
> Private vdev on secondary is never supported by the new shared
> device mode but pdump still relies on a private pcap PMD on secondary.

After your updates on hotplug multi process, isn't any virtual PMD added into
secondary will be added into primary too?
Is current pdump logic still valid after latest update?

> The patch enables pcap PMD's data path on secondary so that pdump can
> work as usual.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>