On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:41 AM Bruce Richardson < bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:34:19AM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: > > On 10-Jan-19 10:02 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > I also forgot that. However, that does bring up the thought that for > some > > > of our headers we may want them available for all libraries even > before EAL > > > is compiled up. [I think this hits on the idea Thomas was discussing of > > > splitting EAL up into two, where we have a core part that is always > > > compiled first and has no dependencies followed by another which is > built > > > later and can have dependencies.] > > > > > > For this specific issue, my thought is that we should indeed move > compat.h > > > into EAL, but also add the EAL common/include/ path to the global > include > > > path for the project, so all EAL headers (e.g. including those with > defines > > > for cacheline size, and other common macros) are just always available. > > > Libs like kvargs and others should be able to use RTE_DIM etc. for > > > consistency with the rest of DPDK. > > > > > > /Bruce > > > > > > > Patches welcome so! :) > > > Working on it... :-) > I don't think it is that quick to do, so, for the time being, do we go with this patch ? -- David Marchand
