[PATCH v5 1/2] eal: add API for bus close

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi,

10/01/2022 06:26, rohit.raj at nxp.com:
> From: Rohit Raj <rohit.raj at nxp.com>
> 
> As per the current code we have API for bus probe, but the
> bus close API is missing. This breaks the multi process
> scenarios as objects are not cleaned while terminating the
> secondary processes.
> 
> This patch adds a new API rte_bus_close() for cleanup of
> bus objects which were acquired during probe.

I don't understand how closing all devices of a bus will help better
than just closing all devices.

As Ferruh already suggested in the past,
we could force closing all devices in rte_eal_cleanup().
And we already have the function rte_dev_remove().