21/06/2017 11:40, Gaëtan Rivet: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:57:18AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > Another (probably better) solution is to keep basic definitions > > and helpers in EAL: > > - rte_pci.h keeps only some PCI definitions and helpers > > like rte_pci_addr and eal_parse_pci_BDF() in EAL > > - bus management is done in the PCI driver > > > > For pmdinfogen, we just need struct rte_pci_id. > > Other tools or applications will probably need this kind of basic > > struct and functions available in EAL. > > I mostly agree, this proposal should be kept to a minimum at first for > this release and carefully expanded afterward. > > If that's ok, I will propose a new version of this patchset with a new > librte_pci, that might fix both pmdinfogen and librte_kni.
Why creating a new librte_pci instead of just keeping it in EAL?
