From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com
 [209.85.212.177]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E268A91C8
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:12:17 +0200 (CEST)
Received: by wiclp12 with SMTP id lp12so866896wic.1
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
 d=1e100.net; s=20130820;
 h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization
 :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version
 :content-transfer-encoding:content-type;
 bh=qrg5Tl7smk1xzrWkn/xMblbri6sWH3evQ6rHQin96x0=;
 b=Rlo+/WfKX8TwhzjvgT4dHq/ZsVvk81QlK4Yk7RkJJvU7FPjN/cTsf0FSvf5AuNy6OD
 izqjbAjbOr47Kb32Cnu2e/1YJiffj2Rhyx0SAgdZCYXbUgEqKFn2dwiEC7Uj7NFsWO1q
 Y8W4Q3SY5meT0AZiscsBjl8r8OPhnfelMHoUiz6n8TmD8jFkAlBrZJd7M96BVgSdTFzP
 FNXxc1Otv985mpyA9Tckw/iT1oQ2WSkXYCPO34vY0a3Odw3+LLJJ39cPWSNyFFSTH5Gy
 mSpGT199g+7qDJEPdXZKbX6sxhx5k/e43mqzxynSe56Njoxej/Ir0+z2kE4hZ8rb69Uz
 Fmfg==
X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmIP2VEkA46sbUFu1+F/GmEHGWiTaRXkvqZnJwh6QuoQIzdsJtExj77OiBYd6doybpXO4eR
X-Received: by 10.194.117.70 with SMTP id kc6mr27360717wjb.13.1441030337767;
 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136])
 by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c7sm22430026wjb.19.2015.08.31.07.12.16
 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:11:07 +0200
Message-ID: <60043761.M5sdKGtq51@xps13>
Organization: 6WIND
User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; )
In-Reply-To: <1440690041-32391-4-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
References: <1440690041-32391-4-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 3/6] null: remove pci device driver
X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/>
List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:12:18 -0000

2015-08-27 16:40, Bernard Iremonger:
> remove rte_null_pmd and pci_dev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
[...]
> -	eth_dev->pci_dev = pci_dev;
> -	eth_dev->driver = &rte_null_pmd;
> +	eth_dev->pci_dev = NULL;

Simple comment:
Why a driver should reset a PCI field if it does not care about PCI?