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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/50] net/liquidio: liquidio VF PMD Driver
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:42 +0000
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On 2/21/2017 9:26 AM, Shijith Thotton wrote:
> Register LiquidIO PMD (net_liovf) and define APIs to init and
> uninit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Venkat Koppula <venkat.koppula@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mallesham Jatharakonda <mjatharakonda@oneconvergence.com>
<...>

> +
> +	mac_addr_size = ETHER_ADDR_LEN;
> +
> +	eth_dev->data->mac_addrs = rte_zmalloc("lio", mac_addr_size, 0);

"mac_addr_size" only used here, your call but it is possible to remove
variable and use ETHER_ADDR_LEN here directly.