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From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: Add the class_id support in pci probe
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:22:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56964186.1060800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113115503.GC7216@bricha3-MOBL3>

On 01/13/2016 01:55 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:12:14AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:53:26 +0800
>> Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch is used to add the class_id support
>>> for pci_probe since some devices need the class_info
>>> (class_code, subclass_code, programming_interface)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang@intel.com>
>>
>> Since rte_pci is exposed to application this breaks the ABI.
>
> But applications are not going to be defining rte_pci_ids values internally, are
> they? That is for drivers to use. Is this really an ABI breakage for applications that we
> need to be concerned about?

There might not be applications using it but drivers are ABI consumers 
too - think of 3rd party drivers and such.

	- Panu -

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-29  2:53 [PATCH] pci: Add the class_id support in pci probe Ziye Yang
2015-12-31 17:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-13 11:55   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-01-13 12:22     ` Panu Matilainen [this message]
2016-01-28 21:38       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-29  9:21         ` Panu Matilainen
2016-01-29  9:34           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-29 10:10             ` Panu Matilainen
2016-01-29 12:47               ` Panu Matilainen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-05-11  6:08 Ziye Yang
2016-05-11 15:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-05-11 15:34   ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-05-19 10:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-19 12:18   ` Yang, Ziye
2016-05-19 12:57     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-19 13:14       ` Yang, Ziye

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