From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
To: "Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"arybchenko@solarflare.com" <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"radhika.chirra@ibm.com" <radhika.chirra@ibm.com>,
"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: missing typecast from void in eth_dev_pci_specific_init
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:15:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB9772580148A96EA6@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88e75c95-b2d3-ca28-b4f3-d27d0c7d6e99@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Ferruh Yigit
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 6:09 PM
> To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Cc: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; thomas@monjalon.net; arybchenko@solarflare.com; dev@dpdk.org;
> radhika.chirra@ibm.com; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: missing typecast from void in eth_dev_pci_specific_init
>
> On 4/11/2019 12:08 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:00:18 +0100
> > Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 03:16:16PM -0500, David Christensen wrote:
> >>> The function eth_dev_pci_specific_init is missing a typecast to
> >>> (struct rte_pci_device *) for the input argument bus_device.
> >>>
> >>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>> Tested-by: Radhika Chirra <radhika.chirra@ibm.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h | 2 +-
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> >>> index 23257e9..a325311 100644
> >>> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> >>> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> >>> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
> >>>
> >>> static inline int
> >>> eth_dev_pci_specific_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev, void *bus_device) {
> >>> - struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = bus_device;
> >>> + struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = (struct rte_pci_device *)bus_device;
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is this needed for building some C++ apps that are including the header
> >> file (directly, or indirectly), because for pure C, "void *" types should
> >> be assignable to any other pointer type without casting?
> >>
> >> /Bruce
> >
> > Another example of Why the Hell is this inline?
> >
>
> It has been done inline intentionally at the time as far as remember, this
> header is for drivers not for applications, it has helper functions.
>
> The common code from drivers related to the bus put into header files, so the
> code itself belongs to drivers not ethdev and reduces duplicates in them.
Ok that's the common code used by the drivers...
But why it still can't be in .c file?
Konstantin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-12 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-10 20:16 [dpdk-stable] " David Christensen
2019-04-10 20:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-10 20:58 ` David Christensen
2019-04-10 21:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 17:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-10 21:00 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Bruce Richardson
2019-04-10 23:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-12 17:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:15 ` Ananyev, Konstantin [this message]
2019-04-12 17:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:29 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 21:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-15 16:00 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-10 21:36 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] ethdev: missing typecast causes C++ build error David Christensen
2019-04-16 16:31 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-16 16:39 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-04-16 16:46 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Ananyev, Konstantin
2019-04-16 21:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-16 21:50 ` David Christensen
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