[PATCH v7] eal: add bus cleanup to eal cleanup
David Marchand
david.marchand at redhat.com
Mon Oct 3 14:35:45 CEST 2022
Hello Bruce, Kevin,
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:59 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> > > For info, Li has sent a patch for the bus cleanup
> > > which is not updating the bus code:
> > > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220606114650.209612-3-lizh@nvidia.com/
> > > It may be a temporary solution before the deprecation.
> >
> > On the principle, that's probably the best, there is no question about
> > unclear frontier of the ABI.
> > (In practice though, the mentionned patch is triggering segfaults in
> > two CI, for pdump).
> >
> > Hiding rte_bus object should be straightforward in v22.11, I had some
> > patches, but never finished the work.
> >
> > It would be great too, to look into rte_driver and rte_device which
> > are exposed important types, but that's another story.
> >
> Agreed, we need to look into all this for 22.11 release, let's defer this
> patch until we get proper deprecation process. Temporary patch looks fine
> as a fix too.
The patch needs some rebasing for making it into 22.11.
Can you work on it, this week?
Thanks!
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David Marchand
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