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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Paulis Gributs <paulis.gributs@intel.com>
Cc: xiaoyun.li@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru, david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: remove most uses of rte_eth_devices
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:45:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15068020.bgqGIu2p9A@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b00ffe28-bd8d-2fbb-faac-40c0a14624ea@intel.com>

15/07/2021 16:52, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 7/15/2021 3:20 PM, Paulis Gributs wrote:
> > This patch removes most uses of the global variable rte_eth_devices
> > from testpmd. This was done to avoid using the object directly which
> > applications should not do.
> > 
> > Most uses have been replaced with standard function calls, however
> > the use of it in the show_macs function could not be replaced as no
> > function call exists to get all mac addresses of a given port.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paulis Gributs <paulis.gributs@intel.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> 
> +1 to eliminate 'rte_eth_devices' access from application

Acked-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li@intel.com>

Applied, thanks that's a good step.
However, I think we should not expose the rte_device pointer at all
as it is done in rte_eth_dev_info.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-24 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-15 13:20 Paulis Gributs
2021-07-15 14:52 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-07-24 12:45   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-07-16  2:13 ` Li, Xiaoyun
2021-07-19 16:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-07-20 10:35   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-20 12:16     ` Ferruh Yigit

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