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From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] prgdev: introduce generic prgdev API
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 23:06:51 +0000
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> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:49 PM, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org=
> wrote:
>=20
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:21:38 +0800
> "Chen Jing D(Mark)" <jing.d.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>=20
>> +struct rte_prg_dev_info {
>> +	struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev; /**< Device PCI information. */
>=20
> NAK
>=20
> No new API should refer to PCI devices. We are trying to make all referen=
ces
> to devices generic. Crypto suceeded, ether is in process, but no new ones=
 please.

The design is not PCI centric and should not be PCI centric, it is just wha=
t they started with months ago. So please look past the PCI bits as they ha=
ve not integrated into the latest code base yet.

Regards,
Keith