[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/11] ethdev: allow ownership operations on unused port

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/9/2018 10:43 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> 
> When the state will be updated later than in allocation,
> we may need to update the ownership of a port which is
> still in state unused.
> 
> It will be used to take ownership of a port before it is
> declared as available for other entities.
> 
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Hi Thomas,

If I remember correctly port ownership merged last release in last minute,
without much review. Now we are having these updates on it on rc3, not sure if
many people aware of this feature.

Instead of getting these updates in rc3, any chance to postpone to next release
and do more reviews?

Thanks,
ferruh