[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct

[Thomas Monjalon]

18/02/2020 06:07, Jerin Jacob:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:08 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > For the ABI compatibility it is better to hide internal data structures
> > from the application as much as possible. But because of some inline
> > functions 'struct eth_dev_ops' can't be hidden completely.
> >
> > Plan is to split the 'struct eth_dev_ops' into two as ones used by
> > inline functions and ones not used, and hide the second part that not
> > used by inline functions completely to the application.
> 
> It is a good improvement.  IMO, If anything used in fast-path it
> should be in ``struct rte_eth_dev``
> and rest can completely be moved to internal. In this case, if
> `rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status`
> not used on fastpath, Maybe we don't need to maintain the inline
> status and move completely
> to .c file.
> 
> Those may be specifics of the work. In general, this change looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>

This ack is missing from v3.
Jerin, please could you confirm on v3?