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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devargs: announce ABI change for device
 parameters
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 21:54:38 +0200
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On 05/10/2017 05:46 PM, Gaetan Rivet wrote:
> The PCI and virtual bus are planned to be moved to the generic
> drivers/bus directory in v17.08. For this change to be possible, the EAL
> must be made completely independent.
> 
> The rte_devargs structure currently holds device representation internal
> to those two busses. It must be made generic before this work can be
> completed.
> 
> Instead of using either a driver name for a vdev or a PCI address for a
> PCI device, a devargs structure will have to be able to describe any
> possible device on all busses, without introducing dependencies on
> any bus-specific device representation. This will break the ABI for this
> structure.
> 
> Additionally, an evolution will occur regarding the device parsing
> from the command-line. A user must be able to set which bus will handle
> which device, and this setting is integral to the definition of a
> device.
> 
> The format has not yet been formally defined, but a proposition will
> follow soon for a new command line parameter format for all devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet<gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>

I understand the change is necessary, so:
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Looking forward for the proposal, I guess you already have some ideas
that you could share?

Thanks,
Maxime