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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] ethdev: add firmware version get
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On 17/11/2016 17:42, Qiming Yang wrote:
> This patch added API for 'rte_eth_dev_fwver_get'
>
> void rte_eth_dev_fwver_get(uint8_t port_id,
> char *fw_version, int fw_length);

Suggest description such as:

This patch adds ethdev API for fetching firmware version.

Also see Thomas's comments. Looks like some stale patches got picked up 
by 'git send-mail *.patch'..

..Remy