+/**
+* Get the port id from pci adrress or device name
+* Ex: 0000:2:00.0 or vdev name net_pcap0
+*
+* @param name
+* pci address or name of the device
+* @param port_id
+* pointer to port identifier of the device
+* @return
+* - (0) if successful.
+* - (-ENODEV or -EINVAL) on failure.
+*/
+int
+rte_eth_dev_get_port_by_name(const char *name, uint8_t *port_id);
+
+/**
+* Get the device name from port id
+*
+* @param port_id
+* pointer to port identifier of the device
+* @param name
+* pci address or name of the device
+* @return
+* - (0) if successful.
+* - (-EINVAL) on failure.
+*/
+int
+rte_eth_dev_get_name_by_port(uint8_t port_id, char *name);
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ * Wrapper for use by pci drivers as a .probe function to attach to a ethdev
+ * interface.
+ */
+int rte_eth_dev_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv,
+ struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev);
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ * Wrapper for use by pci drivers as a .remove function to detach a ethdev
+ * interface.
+ */
+int rte_eth_dev_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev);
+