[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Feb 25 19:18:01 CET 2020


On 2/25/2020 6:13 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:44 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> 
> Sorry, this patch is missing the necessary acks for merging.
> This change can still be announced for 20.11 in the next releases and
> the details can be discussed again since a conclusion was not reached.
> 
> 

That is OK, we can drop for 20.02, I can send a new version to target the 20.11
change only removing interim change.



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