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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 1/6] ethdev: add Tx preparation
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2016-12-02 00:10, Ananyev, Konstantin:
> I have absolutely no problem to remove the RTE_ETHDEV_TX_PREPARE and associated logic.
> I personally don't use ARM boxes and don't plan to,
> and in theory users can still do conditional compilation at the upper layer, if they want to. 

Yes you're right. The application can avoid calling tx_prepare at all.
No need of an ifdef inside DPDK.