[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] examples: move vendor specific apps to drivers sub directory

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Nov 17 12:02:54 CET 2021


05/07/2021 10:53, Jerin Jacob:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 12:47 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> >
> > 26/05/2021 09:47, Hemant Agrawal:
> > > As approved by DPDK technical board on 2021-03-24 NTB and IOAT
> > > raw driver's example application will be moved to
> > > example/drivers/raw/ to avoid PMD specific example application
> >
> > examples with a s :)
> >
> > > to show up in examples directory.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
> > > ---
> > >  examples/{ => drivers/raw}/ioat/Makefile    | 0
> > >  examples/{ => drivers/raw}/ioat/ioatfwd.c   | 0
> > >  examples/{ => drivers/raw}/ioat/meson.build | 0
> > >  examples/{ => drivers/raw}/ntb/Makefile     | 0
> > >  examples/{ => drivers/raw}/ntb/meson.build  | 0
> > >  examples/{ => drivers/raw}/ntb/ntb_fwd.c    | 0
> >
> > I'm afraid the name is confusing.
> > We could expect some driver example in such a path,
> > but it is just an use of the driver.
> >
> > Any other idea of naming?
> 
> Like Linux kernel, Skelton drivers can be added in drivers/ itself, like
> the one existing (drivers/event/skeleton/).
> 
> If there are no better suggestions,  examples/drivers/raw/.. looks good to me.

It could have been examples/rawdev/ntb/




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