[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for virtual device initialization

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Thu Jul 28 17:56:51 CEST 2016


On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:47 PM, De Lara Guarch, Pablo
<pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com> wrote:
>> This is a layer violation.
>> EAL does not know a thing about "ports".
>>
>> This information should come from the crypto framework and so an api
>> in crypto framework is the right place, not EAL.
>>
>> This is a NACK for me.
>
> Fair enough. So you mean to use rte_eth_dev_attach in ethdev library and
> a similar function in cryptodev library?

Yes, and/or wait that the rework in ethdev/eal hotplug has taken place
and mirror this in crypto.


-- 
David Marchand


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