2016-12-22 19:13, Jan Blunck:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> wrote:
> > 2016-12-21 16:09, Jan Blunck:
> >> PCI drivers could use this helper instead of directly accessing fields of
> >> rte_eth_dev to map to rte_pci_device.
> > [...]
> >> +/**
> >> + * @internal
> >> + * Helper for drivers that need to convert from rte_eth_dev to
> >> rte_pci_device.
> >> + */
> >> +static inline struct rte_pci_device *__attribute__((always_inline))
> >> +rte_eth_dev_to_pci(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
> >> +{
> >> + return eth_dev->pci_dev;
> >> +}
> >
> > Why adding this function instead of just using DEV_PCI_DEV(eth_dev->device)?
> >
> > I think we must try to avoid any PCI (or other bus) reference inside
> > ethdev.h.
>
> David requested to move it from rte_pci.h to rte_ethdev.h.
>
> It could get forward declared here if one doesn't use it. On the other
> hand the rte_pci.h would be required to include rte_ethdev.h if we
> move it.
I think there is a misunderstanding.
I was just suggesting to drop this function.
