From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] ethdev: allow ownership operations on unused port Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 21:05:36 +0200 Message-ID: <1724342.ZJg8p6OfUB@xps> References: <20180509094337.26112-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20180509094337.26112-7-thomas@monjalon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Matan Azrad , stable@dpdk.org To: Ferruh Yigit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 09/05/2018 20:00, Ferruh Yigit: > On 5/9/2018 10:43 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > From: Matan Azrad > > > > 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 > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon > > 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. The main purpose is about fixing events NEW and DESTROY. > Instead of getting these updates in rc3, any chance to postpone to next release > and do more reviews? They are not updates but fixes, I think we must consider them.