On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:02:55 +0000 Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> With the API and ABI freeze ahead, it will be good to reserve > some bits on the private structure for future use. > > Otherwise we will potentially need to maintain two different > private structure during 2020 period. > > There is already one use case for those reserved bits[1] > > The reserved field should be set to 0 by the user. > > [1] > https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63077/ > > Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com> > --- Understand the motivation but in my experience until you know what it is for, this doesn't work. And it creates lots of dead ends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
