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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: internalize devargs parsing
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On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 09/07/2017 11:28, Jan Blunck:
>> This is going to get cleaned up in future releases so lets not expose
>> this API unnecessarily.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
>> ---
>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
>> @@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ DPDK_17.08 {
>>  EXPERIMENTAL {
>>       global:
>>
>> -     rte_eal_devargs_parse;
>>       rte_eal_hotplug_add;
>>       rte_eal_hotplug_remove;
>
> We need to expose it temporarily as experimental in order to let
> the failsafe driver calling it.
> When reworked in 17.11, this function or an equivalent should allow
> failsafe (and maybe bonding) to parse slave declaration.

There is no need for the failsafe PMD to parse it to a rte_devargs
because it can just pass the string to the hotplug API.