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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: add callback to get register
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2016-05-27 13:28, Panu Matilainen:
> On 05/25/2016 09:36 AM, zr@semihalf.com wrote:
> > @@ -1455,6 +1458,8 @@ struct eth_dev_ops {
> >
> >  	eth_get_reg_length_t get_reg_length;
> >  	/**< Get # of registers */
> > +	eth_get_reg_width_t get_reg_width;
> > +	/**< Get # of bytes in register */
> >  	eth_get_reg_t get_reg;
> >  	/**< Get registers */
> >  	eth_get_eeprom_length_t get_eeprom_length;
> 
> This is an ABI break, but maybe it is part of that "driver 
> implementation API" which is exempt from the ABI/API policies. Thomas?

Yes dev_ops are for drivers, not for applications.
Thus it should not be impacted by the ABI policy.