>2016-04-07 18:10, Sean Hope: >> Hello, >> >> I see that rte_pci_dev_ids.h has been removed. > >No it has not been removed (yet): > > http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_de >v_ids.h > >> We are using it on our product to get supported device ids. >> >> I understand the desire to move that data out of a central place and >>into >> each driver. Any chance that instead of living in a .c file, that each >> driver could hold it in a .h file so that it could be easily consumed by >> an external program? > >Yes there is a plan to move the PCI ids in the drivers but >we need to make a tool to retrieve the ids from the ELF files. >Why do you want to get them from a .h file?
The need for a .h file isn't an absolute, but we have some code that was using the existing file. If each driver had their Ids in a per-driver .h file then we just include one h file per driver instead of rte_pci_dev_ids.h and our tool still works. Thanks, Sean
