Re: [PATCH] doc: announce some raw/ifpga API removal

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:16 AM Huang, Wei <wei.huang@intel.com> wrote:
> > What is the PCI bus used for, in this application?
> >
> In this application, target PCI device is Intel FPGA, it supports some special operation like removing it from PCI bus and rescanning it back from PCI bus,
> So there are two things need to be done directly on rte_pci_bus:
> 1. Rescan PCI bus
>      pci_bus->bus.scan()
> 2. Get pci_dev by specified PCI address, and remove it
>     TAILQ_FOREACH(pci_dev, &pci_bus->device_list, next) {
>         if (!rte_pci_addr_cmp(&pci_dev->addr, &addr))
>                 return pci_dev;
>     }
>     ....
>     pci_drv = pci_dev->driver;
>     pci_drv->remove(pci_dev);

Can't this application use rte_dev_remove and rte_dev_probe?
If not, we should add the missing parts in the API.


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David Marchand