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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventdev: change port_id to uint16_t
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 20:59:43 +0100
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On 5/8/2018 3:27 PM, Lei wrote:
> From: yao <lei.a.yao@intel.com>
> 
> From 17.11, port_id is changed from uint8_t to uint16_t.But in eventdev,
> it still use the old fashion. This patch fix this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lei Yao <lei.a.yao@intel.com>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

This issue also cause build error when CONFIG_RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS more than 255

More detail related the build error can be found at:
https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/39658/