From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] bus/pci: avoid depending on private value in kernel source
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:02:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xnN5nDjDn+PngYHheP0un2tPS+RGx_AX36cMUCYGXmOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190703054508.22824-1-tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Hello,
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:47 AM Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> wrote:
> The value 40 used in VFIO_GET_REGION_ADDR() is a private value
> (VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_SHIFT) defined in Linux kernel source [1]. It
> is not part of VFIO API, and we should not depend on it.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/6fbc7275c7a9/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h#L19
>
>
I did not follow linux kernel changes, is there something that would change
this offset?
It looks like a cleanup (did not look into the details yet), do we need
this now?
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-03 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-03 5:45 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] bus/pci: avoid depending on private value in kernel source Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 7:02 ` David Marchand [this message]
2019-07-03 7:33 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 7:36 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 7:56 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 8:01 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 8:15 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 8:26 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 8:59 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-07-03 9:10 ` David Marchand
2019-07-03 9:25 ` Tiwei Bie
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