This operation can be used either to validate that a device
representation can be understood by a bus, as well as store the resulting
specialized device representation in any format determined by the bus.
Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.ri...@6wind.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
index 773b0d7..aebf57e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
@@ -138,6 +138,26 @@ typedef int (*rte_bus_plug_t)(struct rte_device *dev,
typedef int (*rte_bus_unplug_t)(struct rte_device *dev);
/**
+ * Bus specific parsing function.
+ * Validates the syntax used in the textual representation of a device,
+ * If the syntax is valid and ``addr`` is not NULL, writes the bus-specific
+ * device representation to ``addr``.
+ *
+ * @param[in] name
+ * device textual description
+ *
+ * @param[out] addr
+ * device information location address, into which parsed info
+ * should be written. If NULL, nothing should be written, which
+ * is not an error.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * 0 if parsing was successful.
+ * !0 for any error.
+ */
+typedef int (*rte_bus_parse_t)(const char *name, void *addr);
+
+/**
* A structure describing a generic bus.
*/
struct rte_bus {
@@ -148,6 +168,7 @@ struct rte_bus {
rte_bus_find_device_t find_device; /**< Find a device on the bus */
rte_bus_plug_t plug; /**< Probe single device for drivers */
rte_bus_unplug_t unplug; /**< Remove single device from driver */
+ rte_bus_parse_t parse; /**< Parse a device name */
};
/**
--
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