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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>,
	"david.marchand@6wind.com" <david.marchand@6wind.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eal/drivers: prefix driver REGISTER macros with EAL
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:57:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011145718.GB31866@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2554688.6PDizipyct@xps13>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-10-11 09:38, Neil Horman:
> > This also begs the question in my mind, is it really worth changing the macro?
> > I really don't think it is.  The registration macros are pretty descriptive as
> > they stand, and have already changed 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months, which
> > suggests to me that any change here is really just churn more than meaningful
> > change.  You can make the argument that the name might be more in line with the
> > library its implemented in or what not, but in truth, its easy to understand
> > what the macros do (in their previous or current incantations), and any change
> > that just makes them the same as other macros in their naming is really more
> > trouble than its worth.
> 
> Neil, the long term goal is to stop having some identifiers which do not
> start with RTE_ in our exported .h files.
> I think it is a reasonable policy, for a library, to live in a well defined
> namespace.
> 

I don't disagree that a consistent namespace is a nice thing, only that we've
had 3 changes to these macros in the last few months, none of which have really
moved us toward that goal.  

At least we can agree that the EAL_ macro being proposed isn't the right thing
to do regardless of motivation :)

Neil

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-11 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-07 13:33 Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-07 13:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] eal/drivers: prefix VDEV driver REGISTER macro " Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-07 13:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] eal/drivers: prefix driver param " Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-07 13:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eal/drivers: prefix driver REGISTER macros " Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-07 13:51   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-07 14:18     ` Neil Horman
2016-10-08 13:01       ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-08 13:00     ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-10 12:56       ` Neil Horman
2016-10-11  6:36         ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-11  7:27           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-11 13:38           ` Neil Horman
2016-10-11 13:57             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-11 14:57               ` Neil Horman [this message]
2016-10-12  4:29                 ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-07 13:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-08 12:47   ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-17 13:09     ` Neil Horman
2016-10-08 18:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] drivers: prefix driver REGISTER macro with RTE EAL Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-08 18:02   ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-08 18:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] drivers: prefix driver REGISTER macro with RTE PMD Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-08 20:21     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-09 15:12       ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-09 19:50         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-10  5:11           ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-10  5:16             ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-10  5:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Shreyansh Jain
2016-10-13 23:45     ` Thomas Monjalon

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