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From: "Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
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Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 2:24 PM
> To: Iremonger, Bernard <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: ixgbe-specific bypass functions
>=20
> Hi Bernard,
>=20
> You moved some VF functions to ixgbe.h.
> Do you think we could do the same kind of work to move bypass functions
> from ethdev to ixgbe API?
> I would see a 2 steps move:
>=20
> 1/ in 17.02
> * copy functions in ixgbe.h
> * use them in testpmd
> * deprecate ethdev functions
>=20
> 2/ in 17.05
> * remove bypass functions from ethdev

I don't think that I will have time to do step 1 in 17.02 apart from sendin=
g the deprecation notice.
I will add step 1 and step 2 to the task list for 17.05.

Regards,

Bernard.