From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "ZELEZNIAK, ALEX" <az5157@att.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] librte_ether: add API's for VF
 management
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:25:02 +0000
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