Hi Panu,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Panu Matilainen [mailto:pmatilai at redhat.com] > Sent: venerd? 9 ottobre 2015 10:26 > To: Montorsi, Francesco <fmontorsi at empirix.com>; Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_eal_init() alternative? > > > Something like the attached patch. > > It seems the patch missed the boat :) Correct, sorry. I'm attaching it now. > > > Note that the attached patch exposes also a way to skip the argv/argc > > configuration process by directly providing a populated configuration > > structure... > > Let me know what you think about it (the patch is just a draft and > > needs more work). > > Can't comment on what I've not seen, but based on comments seen on this > list, having an alternative way to initialize with structures would be > welcomed > by many. The downside is that those structures will need to be exposed in > the API forever which means any changes there are subject to the ABI > process. > Perhaps the init function taking a structure could be an exception for ABI changes... i.e., the format of the configuration is not garantueed to stay the same between different versions, and applications using a shared build of DPDK libraries must avoid using the configuration structure... would that be a possible solution? Thanks, Francesco
