}
+/** Generic Ethernet device arguments */
+struct rte_eth_devargs {
+ uint16_t ports[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];
+ /** port/s number to enable on a multi-port single function */
+ uint16_t nb_ports;
+ /** number of ports in ports field */
+ uint16_t representor_ports[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];
+ /** representor port/s identifier to enable on device */
+ uint16_t nb_representor_ports;
+ /** number of ports in representor port field */
+};
+
+/**
+ * @warning
+ * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice.
+ *
+ * PMD helper function to parse ethdev arguments
+ *
+ * @param devargs
+ * device arguments
+ * @param eth_devargs
+ * parsed ethdev specific arguments.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * Negative errno value on error, 0 on success.
+ */
+int __rte_experimental
+rte_eth_devargs_parse(const char *devargs, struct rte_eth_devargs *eth_devargs);
+
+
typedef int (*ethdev_init_t)(struct rte_eth_dev *ethdev, void *init_params);
typedef int (*ethdev_bus_specific_init)(struct rte_eth_dev *ethdev,
void *bus_specific_init_params);