From: "Sean Hope (shope)" <shope@cisco.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] ethdev: replacement for rte_pci_dev_ids.h?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 03:27:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D32C2E7B.33F2A3%shope@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515516.pAGpqdKvpf@xps13>
>2016-04-07 18:10, Sean Hope:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I see that rte_pci_dev_ids.h has been removed.
>
>No it has not been removed (yet):
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_de
>v_ids.h
>
>> We are using it on our product to get supported device ids.
>>
>> I understand the desire to move that data out of a central place and
>>into
>> each driver. Any chance that instead of living in a .c file, that each
>> driver could hold it in a .h file so that it could be easily consumed by
>> an external program?
>
>Yes there is a plan to move the PCI ids in the drivers but
>we need to make a tool to retrieve the ids from the ELF files.
>Why do you want to get them from a .h file?
The need for a .h file isn't an absolute, but we have some code that was
using the existing file. If each driver had their Ids in a per-driver .h
file then we just include one h file per driver instead of
rte_pci_dev_ids.h and our tool still works.
Thanks,
Sean
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-08 3:27 UTC|newest]
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2016-04-07 18:10 Sean Hope (shope)
2016-04-07 19:16 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-08 3:27 ` Sean Hope (shope) [this message]
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