From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Introducing EAL Bus-Device-Driver Model Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:22:37 +0100 Message-ID: <8998736.nqQJbzs4a4@xps13> References: <1482756644-13726-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> <1482758645-23057-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: david.marchand@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org To: Shreyansh Jain Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F752B9C for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2017 23:22:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c85so210002641wmi.1 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 14:22:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1482758645-23057-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2016-12-26 18:53, Shreyansh Jain: > Link to v1: [10] > Link to v2: [11] > Link to v3: [13] > Link to v4: [14] > > :: Introduction :: > > DPDK has been inherently a PCI inclined framework. Because of this, the > design of device tree (or list) within DPDK is also PCI inclined. A > non-PCI device doesn't have a way of being expressed without using hooks > started from EAL to PMD. It is a very important work to make DPDK growing. I am sorry to not have done a lot of public comments before today. I have sent some thoughts about moving some things from generic objects to specialized ones. I think they are not so much big changes in your work and I hope we could converge to something in the git tree really soon. Thanks Shreyansh. PS: reviews from others are more than welcome!