On 05/24/2016 07:15 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> 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 :)
Panu or Thomas, do you have any comment on this?
Thanks,
Olivier
