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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] i40e: Add floating VEB support for
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Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 12:05:23 +0200
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2016-05-24 12:22, Stephen Hemminger:
> kvargs are a very awkward API to use in a portable application.
> Good for Intel testing NIC's bad for DPDK users.

Yes. The alternative would be to have some driver-specific API.
We can live with devargs until driver API is introduced.