[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eal/drivers: prefix driver REGISTER macros with EAL

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-10-11 09:38, Neil Horman:
> This also begs the question in my mind, is it really worth changing the macro?
> I really don't think it is.  The registration macros are pretty descriptive as
> they stand, and have already changed 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months, which
> suggests to me that any change here is really just churn more than meaningful
> change.  You can make the argument that the name might be more in line with the
> library its implemented in or what not, but in truth, its easy to understand
> what the macros do (in their previous or current incantations), and any change
> that just makes them the same as other macros in their naming is really more
> trouble than its worth.

Neil, the long term goal is to stop having some identifiers which do not
start with RTE_ in our exported .h files.
I think it is a reasonable policy, for a library, to live in a well defined
namespace.