[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/8] ethdev: make driver-only headers private

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Wed Jan 27 09:56:12 CET 2021


On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:38 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The rte_ethdev_driver.h, rte_ethdev_vdev.h and rte_ethdev_pci.h files are
> for drivers only and should be a private to DPDK and not installed.

I agree applications don't need them.

This breaks OOT drivers on the other hand.
We don't take special care not to break such drivers, but we must
announce the change, at least in the release notes.


-- 
David Marchand



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