[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/6] bus: introduce parsing functionality
santosh
santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com
Thu Jul 6 11:19:41 CEST 2017
Hi Gaetan,
On Wednesday 05 July 2017 05:25 AM, Gaetan Rivet wrote:
> This operation can be used either to validate that a device
> representation can be understood by a bus, as well as store the resulting
> specialized device representation in any format determined by the bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
> index 773b0d7..aebf57e 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
> @@ -138,6 +138,26 @@ typedef int (*rte_bus_plug_t)(struct rte_device *dev,
> typedef int (*rte_bus_unplug_t)(struct rte_device *dev);
>
> /**
> + * Bus specific parsing function.
> + * Validates the syntax used in the textual representation of a device,
> + * If the syntax is valid and ``addr`` is not NULL, writes the bus-specific
> + * device representation to ``addr``.
> + *
> + * @param[in] name
> + * device textual description
> + *
> + * @param[out] addr
> + * device information location address, into which parsed info
> + * should be written. If NULL, nothing should be written, which
> + * is not an error.
> + *
r / is not a error/ is valid?
> + * @return
> + * 0 if parsing was successful.
> + * !0 for any error.
> + */
> +typedef int (*rte_bus_parse_t)(const char *name, void *addr);
> +
_parse handler in _common_vdev or common_pci file return boolean value
i.e..0 for success and 1 for error, right? if so then
!0 for any error would be like '1' for error case.. make sense?
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