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From: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
	"wenzhuo.lu@intel.com" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
	"jingjing.wu@intel.com" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
	"bernard.iremonger@intel.com" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>,
	Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>,
	Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
	Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: support action with any config object type
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 08:42:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM4PR05MB346044F553E065BFF49A6AF7B6F80@AM4PR05MB3460.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e07e792-edd4-b946-641d-4cff9cc2c830@solarflare.com>

Thanks, PSB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 11:09 AM
> To: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>; Adrien Mazarguil
> <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>; wenzhuo.lu@intel.com;
> jingjing.wu@intel.com; bernard.iremonger@intel.com; Yongseok Koh
> <yskoh@mellanox.com>; Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>; Slava
> Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; arybchenko@solarflare.com
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: support action with any config
> object type
> 
> On 01.07.2019 17:10, Dekel Peled wrote:
> > In current implementation, an action which requires parameters must
> > accept them enclosed in a structure.
> > Some actions require a single, trivial type parameter, but it still
> > must be enclosed in a structure.
> > This obligation results in multiple, action-specific structures, each
> > containing a single trivial type parameter.
> >
> > This patch introduces a new approach, allowing an action configuration
> > object of any type, trivial or a structure.
> >
> > This patch introduces, in test-pmd, a new macro ARG_ENTRY_HTON, to
> > allow using a single argument, not enclosed in a structure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> 
> The term "object" confuses me a bit, but I'm not a native speaker so it could
> be just my wrong association. I'd prefer "configuration data".

In previous version I wrote just "action configuration", and changed to "action configuration object" per Adrien's suggestion. I think it is better, but if it causes confusion maybe it should be changed.

Adrien, what do you think? Does "configuration data" carry the correct meaning?

> 
> Anyway,
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-02  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-01 14:10 Dekel Peled
2019-07-02  8:09 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-02  8:42   ` Dekel Peled [this message]
2019-07-02  9:57     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2019-07-02 10:11       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-02 10:15         ` Dekel Peled
2019-07-02 10:17       ` Dekel Peled
2019-07-02 14:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Dekel Peled
2019-07-02 15:07   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-02 15:15   ` Adrien Mazarguil
2019-07-03 17:45     ` Ferruh Yigit

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