On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:40:58PM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> For reference, here is the report of the ABI checker for EAL:
>
> [?] struct rte_pci_ioport (2)
>
> 1 Field len has been added to this type.
> 1) This field will not be initialized by old clients.
> 2) Size of the inclusive type has been changed.
> NOTE: this field should be accessed only from the new library
> functions, otherwise it may result in crash or incorrect behavior
> of applications.
> 2 Size of this type has been changed from 16 bytes to 24 bytes.
> The fields or parameters of such data type may be incorrectly
> initialized or accessed by old client applications.
>
> [?] affected symbols (4)
> rte_eal_pci_ioport_map ( struct rte_pci_device* dev, int bar,
> struct rte_pci_ioport* p ) @@ DPDK_16.04
> 3rd parameter 'p' (pointer) has base type 'struct rte_pci_ioport'.
> rte_eal_pci_ioport_read ( struct rte_pci_ioport* p, void* data,
> size_t len, off_t offset ) @@ DPDK_16.04
> 1st parameter 'p' (pointer) has base type 'struct rte_pci_ioport'.
> rte_eal_pci_ioport_unmap ( struct rte_pci_ioport* p ) @@ DPDK_16.04
> 1st parameter 'p' (pointer) has base type 'struct rte_pci_ioport'.
> rte_eal_pci_ioport_write ( struct rte_pci_ioport* p, void const* data,
> size_t len, off_t offset ) @@ DPDK_16.04
> 1st parameter 'p' (pointer) has base type 'struct rte_pci_ioport'.
>
>
> My understanding of the comment for this structure is that it's
> internal to EAL:
I'm not quite sure that is enough. Cc'ed Panu, the guru on ABI stuff,
hopefully he could shed some light on it.
> /**
> * A structure used to access io resources for a pci device.
> * rte_pci_ioport is arch, os, driver specific, and should not be used
> outside
> * of pci ioport api.
> */
> struct rte_pci_ioport {
> ...
> }
>
> So I'd say it's ok to have it integrated for 16.07.
I'll let Thomas to decide it :)
--yliu
