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

[Thomas Monjalon]

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?