From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
mdr@ashroe.eu, olivier.matz@6wind.com,
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 15:55:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32460411.7iZ4MHogd9@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c68af930-d3fa-67bf-4d44-6f8d1a96db5e@solarflare.com>
25/05/2020 11:11, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 5/25/20 2:18 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 04/03/2020 10:57, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> For the ABI compatibility it is better to hide internal data structures
> >> from the application as much as possible. But because of some inline
> >> functions 'struct eth_dev_ops' can't be hidden completely.
> >>
> >> Plan is to split the 'struct eth_dev_ops' into two as ones used by
> >> inline functions and ones not used, and hide the second part that not
> >> used by inline functions completely to the application.
> >>
> >> Because of ABI break the work will be done in 20.11
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> >> ---
> >> +* ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible
> >> + will be done in 20.11.
> >> + Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application
> >> + because some inline functions, like ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status()``,
> >> + access the struct directly.
> >> + The struct will be separate in two, the ops used by inline functions will be moved
> >> + next to Rx/Tx burst functions, rest of the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct will be
> >> + moved to header file for drivers to hide it from applications.
> > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-26 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-17 15:38 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-18 5:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-02-25 12:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-26 13:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18 6:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-21 10:40 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 10:35 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 11:07 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-02-25 11:19 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 12:28 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 12:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 15:51 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 16:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 16:41 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 18:13 ` David Marchand
2020-02-25 18:18 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-03-04 9:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-24 23:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 9:11 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-26 13:55 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-05-25 10:24 ` David Marchand
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