On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > 09/07/2017 11:28, Jan Blunck: >> This is going to get cleaned up in future releases so lets not expose >> this API unnecessarily. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblu...@infradead.org> >> --- >> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map >> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map >> @@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ DPDK_17.08 { >> EXPERIMENTAL { >> global: >> >> - rte_eal_devargs_parse; >> rte_eal_hotplug_add; >> rte_eal_hotplug_remove; > > We need to expose it temporarily as experimental in order to let > the failsafe driver calling it. > When reworked in 17.11, this function or an equivalent should allow > failsafe (and maybe bonding) to parse slave declaration.
There is no need for the failsafe PMD to parse it to a rte_devargs because it can just pass the string to the hotplug API.