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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: plan splitting the ethdev ops struct
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:38:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200217153805.888130-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> (raw)

For the ABI compatibility it is better to hide internal data structures
from the application as much as possible. But because of some inline
functions 'struct eth_dev_ops' can't be hidden completely.

Plan is to split the 'struct eth_dev_ops' into two as ones used by
inline functions and ones not used, and hide the second part that not
used by inline functions completely to the application.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
---
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index dfcca87ab..2aa431028 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
   enabled.
 
+* ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible.
+  Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application
+  because some inline functions, like ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status()``,
+  access the struct directly. The struct will be separate in two, the ops used
+  by inline functions still will be accessible to user but rest will be hidden.
+
 * cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
   be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
   ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
-- 
2.24.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-17 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-17 15:38 Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2020-02-18  5:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-02-25 12:42   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-26 13:01   ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18  6:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-02-21 10:40   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 10:35     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 11:07       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-02-25 11:19         ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 12:28       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 12:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 15:51   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 16:13     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-25 16:41       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-02-25 18:13   ` David Marchand
2020-02-25 18:18     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-03-04  9:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-24 23:18     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25  9:11       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-26 13:55         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 10:24     ` David Marchand

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