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From: "Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 3:11 PM
> To: Iremonger, Bernard
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; david.marchand@6wind.com
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] null: remove pci device driver
>=20
> 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 =3D pci_dev;
> > -	eth_dev->driver =3D &rte_null_pmd;
> > +	eth_dev->pci_dev =3D NULL;
>=20
> Simple comment:
> Why a driver should reset a PCI field if it does not care about PCI?

Setting the pci_dev field to NULL, was needed in an earlier internal revisi=
on of the patch set.
This line is no longer needed and can be removed.
The dev_type field of struct rte_eth_dev{} is now used instead in  rte_ethd=
ev.c.

Regards,

Bernard.