[dpdk-dev] New driver (large patch) question.
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Mar 2 22:54:15 CET 2016
2016-03-02 13:30, Stephen Hurd:
> The bulk of the patch is the hardware interface header file. With all the
> comments, it weighs in around 800k. If I strip the comments, it's around
> 300k. If I both strip all the comments and remove all the currently unused
> structures, I can get the entire patch down just below 300k, but that makes
> it much harder for someone to do further development. I'm willing to do
> that though if it's what's preferred.
>
> The other large file (560k) is just a bunch of extra debug output that
> makes it easier to debug issues. It's normally not compiled, so it sounds
> like it's not wanted either.
If the code is not needed, it's obviously better to not submit it :)
> I'll submit without comments in the hardware interface file and take it
> from there.
I don't think removing the comments is a good option.
Please try to split per-feature to make it readable.
You can check how fm10k was introduced as an example:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/13447
or mlx5:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/26986
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