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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix compilation without VFIO
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 01:39:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7325634.395TUUszRC@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d050d739-50fe-f5e5-eef2-e9781fac82fe@intel.com>

12/04/2018 16:13, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 12-Apr-18 2:34 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > a compilation error occurred when compiling with CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=n
> > 
> > == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal
> >    CC eal_vfio.o
> > /download/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c:1535:1: error: no
> > previous prototype for 'rte_vfio_dma_map' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> >   rte_vfio_dma_map(uint64_t __rte_unused vaddr, __rte_unused uint64_t
> > iova,
> >   ^
> > /download/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c:1542:1: error: no
> > previous prototype for 'rte_vfio_dma_unmap' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> >   rte_vfio_dma_unmap(uint64_t __rte_unused vaddr, uint64_t __rte_unused
> > iova,
> >   ^
> > 
> > As there is no use for those dummy functions without VFIO removing them
> > completely.
> 
> These functions are part of public API, like rest of functions in this 
> header. They're in the map file. Should we perhaps go the BSD way and 
> provide EAL with dummy prototypes as well? See bsdapp/eal/eal.c:763 onwards.

Why using dummy prototypes?
Because the prototypes in rte_vfio.h are under #ifdef VFIO_PRESENT ?
Is it possible to always define the prototypes in rte_vfio.h ?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-12 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-12 13:34 Shahaf Shuler
2018-04-12 14:13 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-12 23:39   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-04-13  9:11     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-13 13:08       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-13 13:37         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-13 13:58           ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-16  5:50             ` Shahaf Shuler
2018-04-16 10:09               ` Burakov, Anatoly

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