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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: support PCI domains
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:15:56 +0200
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2016-07-22 18:56, Sinan Kaya:
> On 7/22/2016 5:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:34:10 -0400
> > Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> The current code is enumerating devices based on bus, device and function
> >> pairs. This does not work well for architectures with multiple PCI
> >> segments/domains. Multiple PCI devices will have the same BDF value but
> >> different segment numbers (01:01:01.0 and 02:01:01.0) for instance.
> >>
> >> Adding segment numbers to device naming so that we can uniquely identify
> >> devices.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
> > 
> > I ran into this yes. There is a small risk of breaking some application that
> > assumed something about names though.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > 
> 
> Thanks, hopefully the change is minor and can be contained until next release.

It is part of the EAL rework.
The function has been moved in EAL and includes the PCI domain:
	http://dpdk.org/commit/affe1cdc