From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Cc: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Legacy, Allain (Wind River)" <allain.legacy@windriver.com>,
dev@dpdk.org,
"yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com" <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
techboard@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:12:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82821129.A9hgLN2u53@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D891265277FF85@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com>
2017-03-28 09:58, Dumitrescu, Cristian:
> > > As follow-up to my own mail, for this specific library example, I
> > > wouldn't look to remove it from DPDK anyway. Parsing ini files is fairly
> > > trivial, so I think it's not a big deal to keep our own version and not
> > > have an external dependency - especially since it's already there and not
> > > a big maintenance burden.
> >
> > Removing this lib would not disable anything as it is used only by examples.
> > I don't see what would be the issue.
> > We just have to download the lib when building the example app.
> > It can be done quite easily in the makefile.
>
> Thomas, more than 3 quarters of DPDK libs are only used by applications, is this a reason to remove them?
>
> Also, I think the purpose of DPDK is to enable people to write applications, not more libraries. Would you agree? We should make the life easier for the application developers, not libraries.
>
> This library is an important utility for applications, similar to librte_cmdline and others. I think it is not fair from your side to refer to librte_cfgfile without any reference to librte_cmdline.
I agree Cristian.
I was just writing another email about removing librte_cmdline:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-March/061777.html
This thread was about librte_cfgfile. I hope you'll agree I am really fair :)
It is really a scope question and should be managed by the techboard (CC).
> > > For newer functionalty, we do need clear guidelines as to when it is
> > > acceptable to add new dependencies to DPDK. I'd love to see us enable
> > > the PCAP PMD by default, for instance, and I think Sergio has recently
> > > proposed we also require libnuma on Linux.
> >
> > We won't include libpcap or libnuma.
> > The only thing we should do is to make easier to view and enable
> > dependencies.
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Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-02 19:29 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] librte_cfgfile enhancement Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] cfgfile: configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 21:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-02 21:22 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 0:53 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-03 11:17 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 11:31 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 12:07 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 12:14 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 12:17 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 12:18 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 12:52 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 12:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-03 12:17 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 13:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] cfgfile: cfg object not initialized after allocation Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] cfgfile: add support for unamed global section Allain Legacy
2017-03-03 10:53 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 11:03 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 11:06 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 11:15 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 11:18 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:46 ` Wiles, Keith
2017-03-09 15:16 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-09 15:23 ` Wiles, Keith
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] cfgfile: add support for unamed global section Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] cfgfile: configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-27 11:19 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-03-27 10:54 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-27 11:12 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-27 11:24 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-27 11:15 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-28 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 9:18 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 9:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 9:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 9:58 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-28 10:12 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-03-28 10:20 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-28 15:24 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 15:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 15:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/6] cfgfile: add support for global properties section Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 10:08 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-31 11:08 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 8:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] cfgfile: add support for global properties section Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-04-04 14:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Thomas Monjalon
[not found] ` <20170329004737.44249-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com>
2017-03-29 0:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-29 0:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-29 9:22 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-29 11:31 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-29 0:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
[not found] ` <20170329004737.44249-7-allain.legacy@windriver.com>
2017-03-29 9:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-29 11:33 ` Legacy, Allain
[not found] ` <20170329004737.44249-3-allain.legacy@windriver.com>
2017-03-29 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] cfgfile: add support for global properties section Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-29 11:35 ` Legacy, Allain
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