From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] mlx5: add link update device operation Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 10:43:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20151102104304.7063116c@xeon-e3> References: <1444067589-29513-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <1446231162-8075-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <1446231162-8075-10-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <20151102095217.7d40e38f@xeon-e3> <20151102182740.GH3518@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Adrien Mazarguil Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com (mail-pa0-f48.google.com [209.85.220.48]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5993E5A76 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:42:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by pasz6 with SMTP id z6so156018919pas.2 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:42:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20151102182740.GH3518@6wind.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:27:40 +0100 Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out, I'm used to avoiding C extensions whenever > possible but will stick to DPDK style next time. > > Still, it would be nice if we could steer DPDK away from such extensions as > much as possible. As a library, we should allow user applications to compile > with flags we can't control (such as -pedantic -std=c99, and various > -Wsomething) No. The extensions are very useful, catch errors, and generate more readable code. For example the extension to check printf formats.