2016-02-17 14:20, Ferruh Yigit: > This is to provide abstraction and reduce global variable access. > > Global variable rte_eth_devices kept exported to not break ABI. > > Bonding driver not selected on purpose, just it seems it is using > rte_eth_devices heavily. > > There are a few more usage in drivers but they left as it is because they > are in fast path code.
What is the benefit of these functions if you do not plan to remove the global variables later? Anyway this discussion targets the release 16.07.
