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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] eal: provide functions to access PCI
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:08:32 -0700
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:44:31 +0000
David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com> wrote:

> +=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0if (len =3D=3D 3 || len > sizeof(pi.pi_data))=
 {
> +=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,=
 "%s(): invalid pci read length\n", __func__);
> +=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0goto error;
> +=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0}
>=20
> A comment on length 3 would help to understand why it is refused.


PCI only supports 1, 2, and 4 byte transactions.
Hopefully someone using this would understand that.