[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/32] net/dpaa2: add dpaa2 vfio support

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-12-07 12:30, Hemant Agrawal:
> On 12/7/2016 2:34 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-12-04 23:47, Hemant Agrawal:
> >> Add support for using VFIO for dpaa2 based fsl-mc bus.
> >
> > Why do we need so much special code for interfacing VFIO on fsl-mc?
> > Can you reuse some code from EAL VFIO?
> >
> 
> fsl-mc VFIO scans the objects.  So, it is slightly different.
> 
> Even though I have tried to minimize changes and re-use the code from 
> EAL VFIO. It is still refactoring work, which we will take up little later.

Do you mean you could re-use some EAL code but do not want to do it now?
It sounds like something heard too many times earlier (from others).
The experience tells we must not wait to do things right.