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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vhost: add support for dynamic vhost PMD
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2016-05-19 17:28, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 5/19/2016 9:33 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-05-18 18:10, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> Add rte_eth_from_vhost() API to create vhost PMD dynamically from
> >> applications.
> > 
> > How is it different from rte_eth_dev_attach() calling rte_eal_vdev_init()?
> > 
> 
> When used rte_eth_dev_attach(), application also needs to do:
> rte_eth_dev_configure()
> rte_eth_rx_queue_setup()
> rte_eth_tx_queue_setup()
> rte_eth_dev_start()
> 
> rte_eth_from_vhost() does these internally, easier to use for applications.

This argument is not sufficient.
We are not going to add new APIs just for wrapping others.