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From: "Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 00/28] remove pci driver from vdevs
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Hi Thomas, Michael,

<snip>

> > Hi, Bernard
> >
> > Could we merge some patch together? I see lots of patches are simple
> > and doing the same thing but in different NIC, merge them almost have
> > no affect of review, what's more it will make reviewers more
> > comfortable with less and simple patches.
> >
> > Then we could have a clean patch set with almost 5 patches, not totally=
 28.
> >
> > librte_eal: add RTE_KDRV_NONE for vdevs
> > librte_ether: add fields from rte_pci_driver to rte_eth_dev_data
> > drivers: copy pci device info to eth_dev data
> > librte_ether: remove branches on pci_dev
> > drivers: remove pci device
>=20
> Yes I agree with Michael

I will reduce the number of patches in the patch set.

Regards,

Bernard.=20