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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] null: remove pci device driver
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:11:07 +0200
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2015-08-27 16:40, Bernard Iremonger:
> remove rte_null_pmd and pci_dev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
[...]
> -	eth_dev->pci_dev = pci_dev;
> -	eth_dev->driver = &rte_null_pmd;
> +	eth_dev->pci_dev = NULL;

Simple comment:
Why a driver should reset a PCI field if it does not care about PCI?