[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 6/6] eal: removing eth_driver

2016-11-18 Thread Shreyansh Jain
sorry for delay in responding; somehow I didn't notice this email. On Thursday 17 November 2016 06:23 PM, Jan Blunck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Shreyansh Jain > wrote: >> This patch demonstrates how eth_driver can be replaced with appropriate >> changes for rte_xxx_driver from the

[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 6/6] eal: removing eth_driver

2016-11-17 Thread Jan Blunck
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > This patch demonstrates how eth_driver can be replaced with appropriate > changes for rte_xxx_driver from the PMD itself. It uses ixgbe_ethernet as > an example. > > A large set of changes exists in the rte_ethdev.c - primarily because too

[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 6/6] eal: removing eth_driver

2016-11-17 Thread Shreyansh Jain
This patch demonstrates how eth_driver can be replaced with appropriate changes for rte_xxx_driver from the PMD itself. It uses ixgbe_ethernet as an example. A large set of changes exists in the rte_ethdev.c - primarily because too much PCI centric code (names, assumption of rte_pci_device) still