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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/nfp: use generic PCI config access
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:36 +0100
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On 6/18/2018 9:06 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> This patch avoids direct access to device config sysfs file using
> rte_pci_read_config instead.
> 
> Apart from replicating code, it turns out this direct access does
> not always work if non-root users execute DPDK apps. In those cases
> it is mandatory to go through VFIO specific function for reading pci
> config space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.