> -----Original Message----- > From: David Marchand <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 17:30 > To: Huang, Wei <[email protected]>; Zhang, Tianfei > <[email protected]>; Xu, Rosen <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Ray Kinsella <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce some raw/ifpga API removal > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:35 AM David Marchand <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Can't this application use rte_dev_remove and rte_dev_probe? > > > > > > > If not, we should add the missing parts in the API. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Both rte_dev_remove and rte_dev_probe need rte_device pointer. > > > > > > In this application, it only know the device's PCI address, is > > > > > > there an existing API > > > > to get the rte_pci_device pointer by its PCI address ? > > > > > > > > > > rte_dev_probe takes a devargs string as input. > > > > > int rte_dev_probe(const char *devargs); > > > > > > > > > > You need the rte_device for removing which can be retrieved from > > > > > rte_rawdev_info_get. > > > > > > > > Additionnaly, rte_eal_hotplug_{add,remove} do the same jobs, but > > > > with an > > > > easier(?) interface. > > > > > > > > > > > I checked rte_eal_hotplug_{add,remove}, they should meet my requirements, > thanks a lot. > > > > Cool, thanks. > > So it seems there is nothing blocking for this API change. > Could you ack the deprecation notice? > This API can be removed. Acked
> Thanks. > > -- > David Marchand
