[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 00/14] prefix network structures

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/10/2019 9:32 AM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> This RFC targets 19.08.
> 
> The rte_net headers conflict with the libc headers, because
> some definitions are duplicated, sometimes with few differences.
> 
> This RFC adds the rte_ (or RTE_) prefix to all structures, functions
> and defines in rte_net library. This is a big changeset, that will
> break the API of many functions, but not the ABI.
> 
> This was discussed in [1], and recently requested by the techboard [2].
> 
> v2:
> * rebase on top of v19.05-rc1
> 
> [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-January/087384.html
> [2] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125033.html
> 
> Olivier Matz (14):
>   net: add rte prefix to arp structures
>   net: add rte prefix to arp defines
>   net: add rte prefix to ether structures
>   net: add rte prefix to ether functions
>   net: add rte prefix to ether defines
>   net: add rte prefix to esp structure
>   net: add rte prefix to gre structure
>   net: add rte prefix to icmp structure
>   net: add rte prefix to icmp defines
>   net: add rte prefix to ip structure
>   net: add rte prefix to ip defines
>   net: add rte prefix to sctp structure
>   net: add rte prefix to tcp structure
>   net: add rte prefix to udp structure

Hi Oliver,

This was planned as one of the early step for the 19.08. Should we continue with
this patchset or are you planning to send a new version on top of latest head?

Thanks,
ferruh