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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 09/20] unci: add rtnl newlink
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:27:25 -0700
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:51:29 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> +
> +#ifndef _RTE_UNCI_COMMON_H_
> +#define _RTE_UNCI_COMMON_H_
> +
> +#define UNCI_DEVICE "unci"
> +
> +enum {
> +	IFLA_UNCI_UNSPEC,
> +	IFLA_UNCI_PORTID,
> +	IFLA_UNCI_PID,
> +	__IFLA_UNCI_MAX,
> +};
> +
> +#define IFLA_UNCI_MAX (__IFLA_UNCI_MAX - 1)
> +
> +#endif /* _RTE_UNCI_COMMON_H_ */
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/unci/unci_dev.h b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/unci/unci_dev.h
> index 0337fa82b..b0a215f1b 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/unci/unci_dev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/unci/unci_dev.h
> @@ -26,11 +26,16 @@
>  #define _UNCI_DEV_H_
>  
>  #include <linux/netdevice.h>
> +#include <exec-env/rte_unci_common.h>
>  
>  #ifdef pr_fmt
>  #undef pr_fmt
>  #endif
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>  
> +struct unci_dev {
> +	u8 port_id;
> +	u32 pid;
> +};

These are to/from user space so should be __u8, __u32.
Also, probably want to support more than 256 ports at some time in future.
So make them both __u32.

>  
>  #endif /* _UNCI_DEV_H_ */

Since you want to target this for upstream kernel. Please try and layout
the includes in an easy manner to do this and avoid using rte_ in names.