[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] cryptodev: version rte_cryptodev_info_get function

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Apr 14 15:03:54 CEST 2020


14/04/2020 14:13, Akhil Goyal:
> Hi Ray/Thomas/Bruce,
> 
> Could you please help review this patch wrt ABI policy?
> > 
> > This patch adds versioned function rte_cryptodev_info_get.
> > Node 20.05 function works the same way it was working before.
> > Node 20.0 function strips capability added in 20.05 release

What are Nodes 20.05 and 20.0?

> > to prevent some issues with ABI policy. To do that new capability
> > array is allocated per device and returned to user instead of the
> > original array passed by PMD.

rte_cryptodev_info is provided by the caller of the function.
I don't understand what you explained above, and the code is missing
some comments explaining the reason of the logic.

I still don't know whether this patch or not because it is missing
some clear explanations.




More information about the dev mailing list