Hello Bruce, Kevin, On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:59 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > > For info, Li has sent a patch for the bus cleanup > > > which is not updating the bus code: > > > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220606114650.209612-3-l...@nvidia.com/ > > > It may be a temporary solution before the deprecation. > > > > On the principle, that's probably the best, there is no question about > > unclear frontier of the ABI. > > (In practice though, the mentionned patch is triggering segfaults in > > two CI, for pdump). > > > > Hiding rte_bus object should be straightforward in v22.11, I had some > > patches, but never finished the work. > > > > It would be great too, to look into rte_driver and rte_device which > > are exposed important types, but that's another story. > > > Agreed, we need to look into all this for 22.11 release, let's defer this > patch until we get proper deprecation process. Temporary patch looks fine > as a fix too.
The patch needs some rebasing for making it into 22.11. Can you work on it, this week? Thanks! -- David Marchand
