[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/18] lib/librte_pmd_fm10k : fm10k pmd driver

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-01-30 13:46, Jeff Shaw:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:26:33PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 01:07:16PM +0800, Chen Jing D(Mark) wrote:
> > > From: "Chen Jing D(Mark)" <jing.d.chen at intel.com>
> > > Jeff Shaw (18):
> > >   fm10k: add base driver
[...]
> > >  lib/librte_pmd_fm10k/SHARED/fm10k_api.c         |  327 ++++
[...]
> > 
> > Why is there a SHARED directory in the driver?  Are there other drivers that use
> > the shared fm10k code?
> 
> No, the other poll-mode drivers do not use the shared fm10k code. The
> directory is similar to the 'ixgbe' and 'i40e' directories in their
> respective PMDs, only that it is named 'SHARED' for the fm10k driver.

So shared is a bad name in the context of DPDK.
Inside Intel, it can be understood that you share it between projects,
but in DPDK, it's only a base driver.

-- 
Thomas