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From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Introduce generic 'rawdevice'
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:01:02 +0530
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On Tuesday 30 January 2018 05:19 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 25/01/2018 23:21, Thomas Monjalon:
>> 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 :)
> 
> No review at all of this new driver class?
> 
> 
> Shreyansh, please could you rebase on latest master and add the
> __rte_experimental tag as done in this commit:
> 	http://dpdk.org/commit/77b7b81e32e
> Thanks
> 

OK. I will do that - thanks for reference.
I will send a v3 along with some documentation support as well.