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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] ethdev: allow ownership operations on
 unused port
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 19:00:27 +0100
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On 5/9/2018 10:43 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> 
> When the state will be updated later than in allocation,
> we may need to update the ownership of a port which is
> still in state unused.
> 
> It will be used to take ownership of a port before it is
> declared as available for other entities.
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Hi Thomas,

If I remember correctly port ownership merged last release in last minute,
without much review. Now we are having these updates on it on rc3, not sure if
many people aware of this feature.

Instead of getting these updates in rc3, any chance to postpone to next release
and do more reviews?

Thanks,
ferruh