From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD91A0C41; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:15:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553574003F; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:15:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEB44003E for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:15:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF2F5C009F; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:15:02 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=fm1; bh= /f+U5fkWZPJcxJUvVRN+gcUm4fX/VKu242eP5TD79PY=; b=HWqIC3j3fx3CSTzu xd80exZc/EtK5edBuxRMNNDnfC5gXu/NNfLze/aJIW4T28sBacn4lg+2BftePaD7 VTYPSYaHwXLOcEiAKsxOydzvhck6U6M/2dlioORL2xMo9T6p7B0p8THDOrnvRC85 o1EaAyHvaMyMneqHKbr/KBI31jjLxU3ybhuTvkMopEYhAzzr2Kv0BjtItLzgSs7I ve4NZwwjB/k3JQnDPI4dhdzGDQ9RkeTSTuF3Ig85zT9fWyDB86BcHbTfSxTAl11e wZoz9D2ogTow/VcVnIXG5hVdAvE4XZWOGtJ8URArwV6HQq+HLdxqt9vDrq8sbxSz D3O3pw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=/f+U5fkWZPJcxJUvVRN+gcUm4fX/VKu242eP5TD79 PY=; b=KeLbG/RR31ihQUZHQlnOKgo633TxjZQuI9y04xnprsCNZApCEYpixqOB1 UzbyBvjDJmiLc5dLrxRb00F9Cf9WhC2CqekKpvZ0VTGw7vyBZkEW6Ttsjy5WbPbT pfLLCLjq7vM3TpcvNMdKPnJQCgUEU21Rf/TNUwNOEmJxfIbuaLjIkoIr1G6MQAov GNIwVGFnJlhiZVs1cBdztvUMA1gzW+Ap8zh1NUsMe6wLby3XWNix/ApdJvJjrKVW i1w4jiAAawRgDR9da3QZ6rd/cFJx6uUde13JqKD8B1ZtCr3Zpzi61LiAXF8diY3y J9ECUza5YbCKe7jbAAIeENy2vYpfQ== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduledrfeegfedgtdefucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhephffvufffkfgjfhgggfgtsehtufertddttddvnecuhfhrohhmpefvhhhomhgr shcuofhonhhjrghlohhnuceothhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvtheqnecugg ftrfgrthhtvghrnhepudeggfdvfeduffdtfeeglefghfeukefgfffhueejtdetuedtjeeu ieeivdffgeehnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrh homhepthhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvth X-ME-Proxy: Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: "Xueming(Steven) Li" Cc: Parav Pandit , "dev@dpdk.org" , Wang Haiyue , Kinsella Ray , "david.marchand@redhat.com" , "ferruh.yigit@intel.com" Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:15:00 +0200 Message-ID: <2209356.FqHIJRZBcD@thomas> In-Reply-To: References: <20210510134732.2174-1-xuemingl@nvidia.com> <2722998.9jiA4btz4K@thomas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] bus/auxiliary: introduce auxiliary bus X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 23/06/2021 01:50, Xueming(Steven) Li: > From: Thomas Monjalon > > 13/06/2021 14:58, Xueming Li: > > > --- /dev/null > > > +++ b/drivers/bus/auxiliary/version.map > > > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ > > > +EXPERIMENTAL { > > > + global: > > > + > > > + # added in 21.08 > > > + rte_auxiliary_register; > > > + rte_auxiliary_unregister; > > > +}; > > > > After more thoughts, shouldn't it be an internal symbol? > > It is used only by DPDK drivers. > > So users will not be able to compose their own driver and register with auxiliary bus?z Yes, that's an interesting question actually. We can continue with experimental/stable status of driver ABI, but we should invent a new ABI flag like DRIVER, so there is no stability policy on such symbol.