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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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2016-04-05 18:58, Harry van Haaren:
> +* ABI change is planned for the xstats API and rte_eth_xstats struct, to
> +  facilitate updating to an API that allows retrieval of values without any
> +  string copies or parsing. No backwards compatibility is planned, as it would
> +  require code duplication in every PMD that supports xstats.

Have you already submitted a RFC patch to let us have an opinion on the change?
We need, at least, to see the structure changes.
Thanks