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{ "id": 115832, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/115832/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20220905083540.2506490-1-david.marchand@redhat.com/", "project": { "id": 1, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/projects/1/?format=api", "name": "DPDK", "link_name": "dpdk", "list_id": "dev.dpdk.org", "list_email": "dev@dpdk.org", "web_url": "http://core.dpdk.org", "scm_url": "git://dpdk.org/dpdk", "webscm_url": "http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev", "list_archive_url_format": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/{}", "commit_url_format": "" }, "msgid": "<20220905083540.2506490-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20220905083540.2506490-1-david.marchand@redhat.com", "date": "2022-09-05T08:35:13", "name": "[v5,00/27] Bus and device cleanup for 22.11", "submitter": { "id": 1173, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/people/1173/?format=api", "name": "David Marchand", "email": "david.marchand@redhat.com" }, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20220905083540.2506490-1-david.marchand@redhat.com/mbox/", "series": [ { "id": 24530, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/series/24530/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=24530", "date": "2022-09-05T08:35:13", "name": "Bus and device cleanup for 22.11", "version": 5, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/series/24530/mbox/" } ], "comments": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/115832/comments/", "headers": { "Return-Path": "<dev-bounces@dpdk.org>", "X-Original-To": "patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org", "Delivered-To": "patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org", "Received": [ "from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124])\n\tby inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCD3A0547;\n\tMon, 5 Sep 2022 10:35:54 +0200 (CEST)", "from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65207400D6;\n\tMon, 5 Sep 2022 10:35:54 +0200 (CEST)", "from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com\n (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [216.145.221.124])\n by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43894400D4\n for <dev@dpdk.org>; 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charset=\"US-ASCII\"; x-default=true", "X-BeenThere": "dev@dpdk.org", "X-Mailman-Version": "2.1.29", "Precedence": "list", "List-Id": "DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>,\n <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>", "List-Archive": "<http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/>", "List-Post": "<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>", "List-Subscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>,\n <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>", "Errors-To": "dev-bounces@dpdk.org" }, "content": "The rte_bus, rte_driver and rte_device objects are part of the public\nABI and this has proved to be a problem when needing to extend them.\nThis series hides them, and mark associated driver only API as internal.\n\nA good amount of the patches are preparation work on rte_bus.h,\nrte_dev.h, rte_devargs.h and rte_eal.h headers, removing dependencies\nbetween them.\n\nPCI bus specific handling are removed from testpmd, unit tests and\nexamples.\n\nAfter this series, driver-only API headers for registering to buses are\nnot exported anymore, unless the enable_driver_sdk meson option is\nselected.\n\nNew accessors for rte_bus, rte_driver and rte_device have been added,\nmarked with an experimental tag first when introducing them, and later\nin the series marked as stable since external users will want to use\nthose drop-in replacements right away.\n\nA check is added to ensure we won't pollute app/ and examples/ again,\nthough some unit tests are left intentionnally untouched as they test\nsome internals of DPDK.\n\nChanges since v4:\n- (hopefully, because I can't test) fixed Windows build,\n- dropped unneeded change in vdev unit test,\n\nChanges since RFC v3:\n- marked the series as non-RFC,\n- rebased on v22.11-rc0,\n- marked RTE_FUNC_PTR_* macros as deprecated,\n- split the bus specific patch in two patches,\n\nChanges since RFC v2:\n- added check for additions of include .*_(driver|pmd)\\.h in apps and\n examples,\n- dropped legacy/debug testpmd commands to read PCI BAR0 registers,\n- dropped patches on bbdev, ethdev, rawdev driver headers for now,\n- reordered patches and separated changes per bus type to ease review,\n- added more accessor for device,\n- introduced rte_dev_bus_info to provide a Bus specific description of\n a device, a first use is for providing a PCI device vendor / device\n identifiers that are otherwise unavailable through a generic existing\n API,\n\nChanges since RFC v1:\n- added two more cleanups (new patch 3 and 4) for unit test and examples\n relying on PCI specific info,\n- went on with masking rte_driver and rte_device too," }