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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Introduce generic 'rawdevice'
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 23:21:52 +0100
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23/01/2018 14:59, Shreyansh Jain:
> Defining a very generic super-set of device type and its device operations that
> can be exposed such that any new/upcoming/experimental device can be layered
> over it. 'rawdevice' semantic in this patchset represents a device that doesn't
> have any flavor/type associated with it which is advertised (like net, crypto
> etc).
> 
> A *rte_rawdevice* is a raw/generic device without any standard configuration
> or input/output method assumption.

Please HELP!
Some reviews would be more than welcome :)