Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/headers: explicitly cast void * to type *

[Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>]

> > If it's a public header then maybe it's missing a @file?
> >  
> My 2c on this in general...
>  
> The use of public vs private headers is not always clear, sadly, in DPDK,
> for historical reasons.  With the make builds, libraries picked up headers
> from other libraries via the "include" folder for all of DPDK, meaning that
> if a particular header was internal only but used by multiple other libs,
> it was placed in "include" for simplicity, rather than having each library
> using it having to have separate "-I/path/to/header" cflags specified.
> With the switch to meson, this common folder use is no longer be the case,
> but because of the old way of doing things it may be that in the transition
> some private headers were inadvertently kept as public (and possibly vice
> versa, though that is more likely to be spotted by now).
> 
> /Bruce

Here is why rte_ethdev_pci.h should be considered private to DPDK:

* rte_eth_copy_pci_info - intended for device init, that is, driver job
* eth_dev_pci_specific_init - wrapper for the above
* rte_eth_dev_pci_allocate - @internal, deals with private data
* rte_eth_dev_pci_generic_probe - @internal, deals with private data
* rte_eth_dev_pci_generic_remove - @internal