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From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/13] devargs fixes
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 05:25:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALe+Z02sX_2J=5nBswvaMfheZkb--UWiM-Wy8BP2F_LXSSxmMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25860205.Dk19R5WIvi@xps>

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 12/07/2017 10:09, Jan Blunck:
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>> > 12/07/2017 01:24, Jan Blunck:
>> >> The changes to enum rte_devtype that got merged into 17.08-rc1 are breaking
>> >> API without prior notice. This series is reworking the rte_devargs changes
>> >> in a way hopefully compliant to the new failover PMD and still keeping API
>> >> compatible with earlier releases.
>> >
>> > I have not reviewed this series yet.
>> > I have just seen that your are introducing "bus=" in devargs.
>> > Do you keep compatibility with old scheme without "bus=" option?
>> > We need to keep this compat for 17.08 and deprecate it for 17.11.
>>
>> The old scheme which got introduced with 17.08-rc1 is using the
>> concatenation of bus name, a one character separator and the device
>> name:
>>
>> rte_eal_devargs_parse( "busname*devname,args" )
>
> No I was talking about the real old scheme without any bus name :)
>

Yes, the first patches of the series are fixing the API breakage
introduced by renaming the enum rte_devtype enumerators in 17.08-rc1.
>From what I can tell the rte_eal_devargs_add() function should be API
compatible with 17.05 again after applying this.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-12  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-11 23:24 Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/13] Revert "devargs: make device types generic" Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/13] devargs: fix unittest Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/13] devargs: deprecate enum rte_devtype based functions Jan Blunck
2017-08-07 23:02   ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/13] pci: use scan_mode configuration Jan Blunck
2017-07-13 17:59   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-07-13 19:42     ` Jan Blunck
2017-07-13 20:48       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/13] bus: add configuration interface for buses Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/13] devargs: use bus configuration interface to set scanning mode Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/13] devargs: add busname string field Jan Blunck
2017-07-13 13:17   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/13] devargs: use busname Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/13] devargs: parse "bus=" argument Jan Blunck
2017-07-13 13:40   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-07-13 19:34     ` Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/13] pci: use busname Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/13] vdev: " Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/13] devargs: remove type field Jan Blunck
2017-07-11 23:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/13] devargs: remove bus field Jan Blunck
2017-07-12  7:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/13] devargs fixes Thomas Monjalon
2017-07-12  8:09   ` Jan Blunck
2017-07-12  8:50     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-07-12  9:25       ` Jan Blunck [this message]
2017-07-14 21:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/15] " Jan Blunck
2017-07-14 21:11   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/15] Revert "devargs: make device types generic" Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:05     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/15] devargs: fix unittest Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:05     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/15] devargs: extend unittest Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:05     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/15] devargs: deprecate enum rte_devtype based functions Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:06     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/15] pci: use scan_mode configuration Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:22     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/15] bus: add configuration interface for buses Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:23     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/15] devargs: use bus configuration interface to set scanning mode Jan Blunck
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/15] devargs: use existing functions in rte_eal_devargs_parse() Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:24     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/15] devargs: add busname string field Jan Blunck
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/15] devargs: use busname Jan Blunck
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/15] pci: " Jan Blunck
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/15] vdev: " Jan Blunck
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/15] devargs: pass busname argument when parsing Jan Blunck
2017-07-15 14:48     ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-09-04 16:28       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-09-04 16:28     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 14/15] devargs: remove type field Jan Blunck
2017-09-04 16:29     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-07-14 21:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 15/15] devargs: remove bus field Jan Blunck
2017-07-15 18:20   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/15] devargs fixes Thomas Monjalon
2017-09-04 16:04   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-09-05  8:20     ` Gaëtan Rivet

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