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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct
@ 2020-02-17 15:38 Ferruh Yigit
  2020-02-18  5:07 ` Jerin Jacob
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Ferruh Yigit @ 2020-02-17 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Neil Horman, John McNamara, Marko Kovacevic
  Cc: dev, Ferruh Yigit, David Marchand, Thomas Monjalon, Andrew Rybchenko

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.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
---
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index dfcca87ab..2aa431028 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
   enabled.
 
+* ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible.
+  Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application
+  because some inline functions, like ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status()``,
+  access the struct directly. The struct will be separate in two, the ops used
+  by inline functions still will be accessible to user but rest will be hidden.
+
 * cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
   be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
   ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
-- 
2.24.1


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2020-02-17 15:38 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-18  5:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-02-25 12:42   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-26 13:01   ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18  6:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-21 10:40   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 10:35     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 11:07       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-02-25 11:19         ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 12:28       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 12:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 15:51   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 16:13     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 16:41       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 18:13   ` David Marchand
2020-02-25 18:18     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-03-04  9:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-24 23:18     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25  9:11       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-26 13:55         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 10:24     ` David Marchand

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