[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/9] pmdinfogen: move to drivers subdirectory

[Thomas Monjalon]

21/06/2017 11:40, Gaëtan Rivet:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:57:18AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Another (probably better) solution is to keep basic definitions
> > and helpers in EAL:
> > 	- rte_pci.h keeps only some PCI definitions and helpers
> > like rte_pci_addr and eal_parse_pci_BDF() in EAL
> > 	- bus management is done in the PCI driver
> > 
> > For pmdinfogen, we just need struct rte_pci_id.
> > Other tools or applications will probably need this kind of basic
> > struct and functions available in EAL.
> 
> I mostly agree, this proposal should be kept to a minimum at first for
> this release and carefully expanded afterward.
> 
> If that's ok, I will propose a new version of this patchset with a new
> librte_pci, that might fix both pmdinfogen and librte_kni.

Why creating a new librte_pci instead of just keeping it in EAL?