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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] ethdev: separate driver APIs
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20/01/2018 17:57, Ferruh Yigit:
> Create a rte_ethdev_driver.h file and move PMD specific APIs here.
> Drivers updated to include this new header file.
> 
> There is no update in header content and since ethdev.h included by
> ethdev_driver.h, nothing changed from driver point of view, only
> logically grouping of APIs. From applications point of view they can't
> access to driver specific APIs anymore and they shouldn't.
> 
> More PMD specific data structures still remain in ethdev.h because of
> inline functions in header use them. Those will be handled separately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>

It is really hard to review, especially patches 2 and 3.
But I really like the idea, so
Series Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Let's take this change in 18.02-rc1.