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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Stephen Hurd <stephen.hurd@broadcom.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] New driver (large patch) question.
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:54:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1915798.D06pWLxedU@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ9nmBY-9z7o94cqHwKoS+ThWxZSvvpCrsJzBcduf0thVjNzAA@mail.gmail.com>

2016-03-02 13:30, Stephen Hurd:
> The bulk of the patch is the hardware interface header file.  With all the
> comments, it weighs in around 800k.  If I strip the comments, it's around
> 300k.  If I both strip all the comments and remove all the currently unused
> structures, I can get the entire patch down just below 300k, but that makes
> it much harder for someone to do further development.  I'm willing to do
> that though if it's what's preferred.
> 
> The other large file (560k) is just a bunch of extra debug output that
> makes it easier to debug issues.  It's normally not compiled, so it sounds
> like it's not wanted either.

If the code is not needed, it's obviously better to not submit it :)

> I'll submit without comments in the hardware interface file and take it
> from there.

I don't think removing the comments is a good option.
Please try to split per-feature to make it readable.
You can check how fm10k was introduced as an example:
	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/13447
or mlx5:
	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/26986

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-02 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJ9nmBaWh8WsuzQcAfrebjaFNYSGsGxEd5Y5DQfWTPuxYY8XWQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-03-02 10:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-02 16:24   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-02 21:30     ` Stephen Hurd
2016-03-02 21:54       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-03-02 22:06         ` Stephen Hurd
2016-03-02 22:12           ` Wiles, Keith
2016-03-02 22:15           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-02 23:10             ` Stephen Hurd
2016-03-03  0:29               ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-03  1:04                 ` Stephen Hurd
2016-03-03  5:53               ` Qiu, Michael
2016-03-03 19:40                 ` Stephen Hurd
2016-03-02 23:07       ` Vincent JARDIN
2016-03-02 23:43         ` Bruce Richardson

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