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From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
To: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, navasile@linux.microsoft.com, stable@dpdk.org,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/headers: explicitly cast void * to type *
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:05:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210114100557.3ec44961@sovereign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210114054549.GA27612@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net>

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:45:49 -0800, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 08:52:55PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:18:45 -0800, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:  
> > > Explicitly cast void * to type * so that eal headers may be compiled
> > > as C or C++.  
> > 
> > Topic should probably be "eal/windows".  
> 
> i'll submit a new rev that changes this, it's not really windows specific
> but i guess windows is the only people crazy enough to use c++.

1. Topic usually describe area of changes, rte_os.h is in windows directory.

2. It's a perfectly valid concern that public headers must be usable from C++.


> > > diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> > > index bf715896a..c20be29b1 100644
> > > --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> > > @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ rte_eth_copy_pci_info(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev,
> > >  
> > >  static inline int
> > >  eth_dev_pci_specific_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev, void *bus_device) {
> > > -	struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = bus_device;
> > > +	struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = (struct rte_pci_device *)bus_device;
> > >  
> > >  	if (!pci_dev)
> > >  		return -ENODEV;  
> > 
> > This is a private header, it's never exposed---why the change is needed (not
> > that I have a strong opinion, though)?  
> 
> interesting, i'll look into why/how it is being included and confirm. i suppose
> the question in the back of my mind is if it is private then why is the header
> being installed at all?

+ Bruce

If it's a public header then maybe it's missing a @file?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-14  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12  1:18 Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-13 17:52 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-01-14  5:45   ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-14  7:05     ` Dmitry Kozlyuk [this message]
2021-01-14 10:55       ` Bruce Richardson
2021-01-14 18:27         ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-01-14 18:49           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-15 19:21         ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-17 17:13           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-15 19:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/windows: " Tyler Retzlaff
2021-01-17 17:19   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-17 18:10   ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-17 19:51     ` Dmitry Kozlyuk

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