[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Mon May 25 12:24:22 CEST 2020


On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:57 AM 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.
>
> Because of ABI break the work will be done in 20.11
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>


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