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

[Thomas Monjalon]

09/05/2018 20:00, 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.

The main purpose is about fixing events NEW and DESTROY.

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

They are not updates but fixes, I think we must consider them.