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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] net/representor: Implement port
 representor PMD
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:02:46 +0000
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On 20/11/2017 07:46, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
[..]
> Why we need this PMD?
> It looks like this has been used only for parameter parsing.
>
> Can it be possible to rte_representor_broker_init() will allocate ethdevs and
> fill brokers with this information?

Possible, but not sure it gains much in practice. It would require 
workarounds to avoid pulling in driver code dependencies (e.g. 
drivers/bus/vdev/rte_bus_vdev.h).