Re: [PATCH v7] eal: add bus cleanup to eal cleanup

[Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>]

Hi David,

On 03/10/2022 13:35, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello Bruce, Kevin,
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:59 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>>>> For info, Li has sent a patch for the bus cleanup
>>>> which is not updating the bus code:
>>>> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220606114650.209612-3-lizh@nvidia.com/
>>>> It may be a temporary solution before the deprecation.
>>> On the principle, that's probably the best, there is no question about
>>> unclear frontier of the ABI.
>>> (In practice though, the mentionned patch is triggering segfaults in
>>> two CI, for pdump).
>>>
>>> Hiding rte_bus object should be straightforward in v22.11, I had some
>>> patches, but never finished the work.
>>>
>>> It would be great too, to look into rte_driver and rte_device which
>>> are exposed important types, but that's another story.
>>>
>> Agreed, we need to look into all this for 22.11 release, let's defer this
>> patch until we get proper deprecation process. Temporary patch looks fine
>> as a fix too.
> The patch needs some rebasing for making it into 22.11.
> Can you work on it, this week?
>
Yes, I'll have a look at it - thanks for your work on the deprecations 
and cleanup!

-Kevin