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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Move EAL common functions
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Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On 01/05/2015 01:24 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Hopefully that means two directories, not three. I think the existing common
> folder should stay as it is, with the same name, and possibly add one new folder
> for code that is common between BSD and Linux, but which would not be common
> to other non-unix environments. I would be in favour of "common-posix" or
> "common-unix" for such a folder name, if one is created. In the absense of
> any other supported OS (or baremetal), I wonder as to the value of creating
> such a separation at this point?

The idea of common-posix (or common-unix) was a way to identify which
code use the posix API, in the same logic than "common-x86". It would
help when porting on other environment.

But after thinking more about it, you are right, there is probably no
real advantage yet and, as we only support unix environment, we cannot
check that the separation would be correct.

Regards,
Olivier