[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 03/14] eal/pci, ethdev: Remove assumption that port will not be detached

[Tetsuya Mukawa]

On 2015/02/18 9:31, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-02-17 15:14, Tetsuya Mukawa:
>> On 2015/02/17 9:36, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 2015-02-16 13:14, Tetsuya Mukawa:
>>> Is uint8_t sill a good size for hotpluggable virtual device ids?
>> I am not sure it's enough, but uint8_t is widely used in "rte_ethdev.c"
>> as port id.
>> If someone reports it doesn't enough, I guess it will be the time to
>> write a patch to change all uint_8 in one patch.
> It's a big ABI breakage. So if we feel it's going to be required,
> it's better to do it now in 2.0 release I think.
>
> Any opinion?
>

Hi Thomas,

I agree with it.
I will add an one more patch to change uint8_t to uint16_t.

Thanks,
Tetsuya