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Hi Olivier,

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 06:28:05PM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> Change the size of m->port and m->nb_segs to 16 bits.

But all the ethdev APIs are still using 8 bits. 16 bits won't really
take effect without updating those APIs. Any plans?

	--yliu