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From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] examples/ethtool: use
 rte_eth_dev_get_reg_info for reg params
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 14:24:12 +0100
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On 04/07/2016 12:36, Zyta Szpak wrote:
> From: Zyta Szpak <zr@semihalf.com>
>
> This change deals with hard-coded register width.
> The app was allocating too little space for 64-bit registers
> which resulted in memory corruption. This commit resolves
> this by getting the number of registers and size of register
> by rte_eth_dev_get_reg_info function called first time
> with data=NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zyta Szpak <zr@semihalf.com>

Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>