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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/15] i40e/base: remove HMC AQ APIs
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On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:14:59PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 04:53:30PM +0800, Helin Zhang wrote:
> > HMC AQ APIs were removed from the latest datasheet, and
> > hence remove its implementations and relevant.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> Hi Helin,
> 
> what is HMC? I assume AQ is short for admin queue. These abbreviations are pretty
> specific to i40e, so need to be expanded out in the commit message.
> 
> /Bruce

Also, can you provide any more details on why they were removed? Are they
deprecated, or being replaced by something else?

/Bruce