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From: "Laatz, Kevin" <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/13] eal: add option register
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:05:47 +0100
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On 24/10/2018 15:52, Laatz, Kevin wrote:
> On 24/10/2018 15:33, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 24/10/2018 16:01, Gaëtan Rivet:
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Kevin Laatz wrote:
>>>> This commit adds infrastructure to EAL that allows an application to
>>>> register it's init function with EAL. This allows libraries to be
>>>> initialized at the end of EAL init.
>>>>
>>>> This infrastructure allows libraries that depend on EAL to be 
>>>> initialized
>>>> as part of EAL init, removing circular dependency issues.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
>>> I think this is good enough,
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
>> Yes it looks good enough.
>> And it compiles fine in my test.
>>
>>> The only remaining issue is rte_option_init().
>>> Sorry I missed your previous message and did not respond in time, I
>>> would have opted for leaving a return value to at least be able to stop
>>> the init on error. It is possible to force the callback type to return
>>> an error value along with a string / hint describing the error. It
>>> should not be hard to add it later, so not blocking IMO.
> Agree this can be added in the future.
>> I think you need to set this API as experimental.
> Will do, thanks.
Correction: This is an internal function (eal_private.h), so no need to 
mark as experimental. rte_option_register() is marked as experimental.