examples/vhost: remove unnecessary method and constant

This cleanup patch removes a method and a constant which
are now unnecessary in the VHOST sample application, namely
the validate_num_devices() method and the MAX_DEVICES
constant.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

diff --git a/examples/vhost/main.c b/examples/vhost/main.c
index dc9ea10..f722a13 100644 (file)
--- a/examples/vhost/main.c
+++ b/examples/vhost/main.c
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@
 
 #define INVALID_PORT_ID 0xFF
 
-/* Max number of devices. Limited by vmdq. */
-#define MAX_DEVICES 64
-
 /* Maximum long option length for option parsing. */
 #define MAX_LONG_OPT_SZ 64
 
@@ -214,21 +211,6 @@ get_eth_conf(struct rte_eth_conf *eth_conf, uint32_t num_devices)
        return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * Validate the device number according to the max pool number gotten form
- * dev_info. If the device number is invalid, give the error message and
- * return -1. Each device must have its own pool.
- */
-static inline int
-validate_num_devices(uint32_t max_nb_devices)
-{
-       if (num_devices > max_nb_devices) {
-               RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_PORT, "invalid number of devices\n");
-               return -1;
-       }
-       return 0;
-}
-
 /*
  * Initialises a given port using global settings and with the rx buffers
  * coming from the mbuf_pool passed as parameter
@@ -270,10 +252,6 @@ port_init(uint16_t port)
 
        tx_rings = (uint16_t)rte_lcore_count();
 
-       retval = validate_num_devices(MAX_DEVICES);
-       if (retval < 0)
-               return retval;
-
        /* Get port configuration. */
        retval = get_eth_conf(&port_conf, num_devices);
        if (retval < 0)