On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 10:26:15 +0200 David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> wrote:
> This is a PoC for hiding the rte_bus, rte_driver and rte_device objects. > And mark associated driver only API as internal. > > A good amount of the patches are preparation work on rte_bus.h, > rte_dev.h, rte_devargs.h and rte_eal.h headers, removing dependencies > between them. This is something I had in store for some time, maybe I > should have dropped it from the PoC, but I think those cleanups are > worth it in any case. > > Then PCI bus specific handling are moved from unit tests and examples, > though there is still a special case left in testpmd that may require a > new API, to be discussed. > > After this series, driver-only API headers for registering to buses are > not exported anymore, unless the enable_driver_sdk meson option is > selected. > > New accessors for rte_bus, rte_driver and rte_device have been added, > marked with an experimental tag though we may declare them as stable > right away so that users can switch to them directly. That's also > something to agree on. > > I simplified my series and switched to only update "external" users, > like app/ and examples/ files. > We need some checkpatch new checks to be sure we won't get some > driver-only headers included in these areas. That's something I'll work > on in the non RFC series. > > "Internal" users are simply using the internal headers. That helps > greatly reducing the size of the changes. > > Disclaimer: again, in this v2, this series is a bit rushed (I brute forced > compilation tests in GHA so that it passes between patches, but there still > may be something broken...). > Not surprisingly, the ABI check in the CI is expected to fail. > > > Comments welcome. Looks good to me, lots of work but will the separation internal and external API's will help in future.
