Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/pcap: duplicate code consolidation

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 6/19/2018 3:37 PM, ido goshen wrote:
> Signed-off-by: ido goshen <ido@cgstowernetworks.com>

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>  /*
> + * Opens a NIC for reading packets from it
> + */
> +static inline int
> +open_rx_iface(const char *key, const char *value, void *extra_args)
> +{
> +	return open_iface(key, value, extra_args);
> +}
> +
> +/*
>   * Opens a NIC for writing packets to it
>   */
>  static int
>  open_tx_iface(const char *key, const char *value, void *extra_args)
>  {
> -	const char *iface = value;
> -	struct pmd_devargs *tx = extra_args;
> -	pcap_t *pcap;
> -
> -	if (tx->num_of_queue >= RTE_PMD_PCAP_MAX_QUEUES)
> -		return -1;
> -	if (open_single_iface(iface, &pcap) < 0)
> -		return -1;
> -	tx->queue[tx->num_of_queue].pcap = pcap;
> -	tx->queue[tx->num_of_queue].name = iface;
> -	tx->queue[tx->num_of_queue].type = key;
> -	tx->num_of_queue++;
> -
> -	return 0;
> +	return open_iface(key, value, extra_args);
>  }
>  
>  static struct rte_vdev_driver pmd_pcap_drv;
> 

Is there a reason to keep open_tx_iface() and open_rx_iface(), they both are
wrapper to open_iface().
Why not use open_iface() directly as callback function?