HI Neil,
The same code of low-level HW driver is shared with different OSs
(kernel, uboot etc) and different framework. If we introduce rte_internal in
these low-level hw files, it will be a big maintenance issue for NXP. Everytime
there is a change or upgrade, it will be a pain.
Regards,
Hemant
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 7:54 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <jer...@marvell.com>; Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>;
> Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; Hemant Agrawal
> <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.j...@nxp.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 05/10] fslmc: identify internal only functions and tag them
> as __rte_internal
> Importance: High
>
> Identify functions in fslmc bus driver which are internal (based on
> their not having an rte_ prefix) and tag them with __rte_internal
>
