[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pci: Add the class_id support in pci probe

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Wed Jan 13 13:22:30 CET 2016


On 01/13/2016 01:55 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:12:14AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:53:26 +0800
>> Ziye Yang <ziye.yang at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch is used to add the class_id support
>>> for pci_probe since some devices need the class_info
>>> (class_code, subclass_code, programming_interface)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang at intel.com>
>>
>> Since rte_pci is exposed to application this breaks the ABI.
>
> But applications are not going to be defining rte_pci_ids values internally, are
> they? That is for drivers to use. Is this really an ABI breakage for applications that we
> need to be concerned about?

There might not be applications using it but drivers are ABI consumers 
too - think of 3rd party drivers and such.

	- Panu -



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