[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] PCI: ABI change request for adding new field in rte_pci_id structure

Liang, Cunming cunming.liang at intel.com
Thu Feb 18 03:46:18 CET 2016



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Ziye Yang
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 9:55 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Yang, Ziye
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] PCI: ABI change request for adding new field in
> rte_pci_id structure
> 
> From: Ziye <ziye.yang at intel.com>
> 
> The purpose of this patch is used to add a new field
> "class" in rte_pci_id structure. The new class field includes
> class_id, subcalss_id, programming interface of a pci device.
> With this field, we can identify pci device by its class info,
> which can be more flexible instead of probing the device by
> vendor_id OR device_id OR subvendor_id OR subdevice_id.
> For example, we can probe all nvme devices by class field, which
> can be quite convenient.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang at intel.com>

It's better to use "doc:" as subject prefix, the others are good to go.
Acked-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang at intel.com>


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