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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: IGB_UIO port unbinding
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:39:54 +0200
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Hi,

2014-04-10 09:39, Burakov, Anatoly:
> As you may or may not know, the CONFIG_RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS was deprecated
> in the official Intel(r) DPDK 1.6.0 release package. However, the code
> itself (e.g. in lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal_pci.c and other places) to
> support that config option was not removed. My question would be, would
> anyone be opposed to a patch to remove that code entirely? E.g. does anyone
> use that functionality?

On my side, it's OK to remove it.
I think you can prepare the patch and we'll wait 1 week before applying it.
If nobody complains, this feature will be definitely removed.

-- 
Thomas