2015-01-30 13:46, Jeff Shaw: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:26:33PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 01:07:16PM +0800, Chen Jing D(Mark) wrote: > > > From: "Chen Jing D(Mark)" <jing.d.chen at intel.com> > > > Jeff Shaw (18): > > > fm10k: add base driver [...] > > > lib/librte_pmd_fm10k/SHARED/fm10k_api.c | 327 ++++ [...] > > > > Why is there a SHARED directory in the driver? Are there other drivers > > that use > > the shared fm10k code? > > No, the other poll-mode drivers do not use the shared fm10k code. The > directory is similar to the 'ixgbe' and 'i40e' directories in their > respective PMDs, only that it is named 'SHARED' for the fm10k driver.
So shared is a bad name in the context of DPDK. Inside Intel, it can be understood that you share it between projects, but in DPDK, it's only a base driver. -- Thomas
