Re: [PATCH 0/5] Merge Linux and BSD EAL map files

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

19/10/2017 18:45, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 05:36:24PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Both Linux and BSD EALs should provide exactly the same set of functions
> > to the user, even if in some cases the function is a stub returning
> > ENOTSUP. Because of this we should only need a single version.map file for
> > all of EAL - not one each for Linux and FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, there was some inconsistencies in the two EALs, specifically
> > 4 functions were missing from the BSD interrupts files. As part of adding
> > the needed stubs, I also discovered that there was nothing terribly
> > Linux-specific about the Linux-specific rte_interrupts.h file, which
> > appeared to contain a superset of the BSD contents. Therefore, this file
> > could be made common also.
> > 
> > The net result is that there are now zero BSD-specific EAL headers, and
> > only a single Linux one for KNI. The version.map file is now moved to a
> > common location also, just inside rte_eal directory.
> > 
> > [While an argument could be made to put it in common, this location works
> > best for integration with the existing meson build-sysetm work. It also
> > allows the same version file to be used for non-posix-like environments
> > which may not use the "common" folder as much]
> > 
> > 
> > Bruce Richardson (5):
> >   eal/bsdapp: align interrupt include file with Linux version
> >   eal/bsdapp: fix missing interrupt stub functions
> >   eal: merge bsdapp and linuxapp interrupt headers
> >   eal: mark internal interrupts file as such to doxygen
> >   eal: use a single version map file
> > 
> 
> Compilation tested for both static and shared builds on FreeBSD 11.0 and
> Fedora 26.

Applied, thanks