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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Stojaczyk, Dariusz" <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devargs: do not replace already inserted
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08/11/2018 12:25, Stojaczyk, Dariusz:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > 
> > The devargs of a device can be replaced by a newly allocated one
> > when trying to probe again the same device (multi-process or
> > multi-ports scenarios). This is breaking some pointer references.
> > 
> > It can be avoided by copying the new content, freeing the new devargs,
> > and returning the already inserted pointer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> 
> Tested-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>

Is it fixing any use case?