From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] bus/pci: avoid depending on private value in kernel source
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 17:25:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190703092551.GA958@___> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8xC+ovkiNcfn2iJW=48sqUM9c2ZeRHjuVW49DTZ44tsVg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:10:21AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:01 AM Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 10:26:39AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > This patch breaks the ABI by extending rte_pci_device.
> > You must rework it to avoid this break.
>
> I didn't expect it to be merged in this release. I just want
> to draw other's attention on this and kick off the discussion
> (it would be great if you would like to share your thoughts
> on this). If there is a way to avoid extending rte_pci_device,
> it would be definitely great. But if we have to break it, then
> we would want to send out the announce as early as possible.
>
>
> What we have here is a vfio private thing, we don't need it to be exposed.
>
> Did not think it through yet.
> How about having an internal (as in, in the pci driver code) representation of
> the pci devices?
> This internal structure would embed the rte_pci_device exposed to the others
> subsystems and the applications and the vfio code would just get what it wants
> by using offsetof?
I think it's a good idea! I'll give it a try.
Thanks!
Tiwei
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-03 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 5:45 Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 7:02 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 7:33 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 7:36 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 7:56 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 8:01 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 8:15 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 8:26 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 8:59 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 9:10 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 9:25 ` Tiwei Bie [this message]
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