[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix compilation without VFIO
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Apr 13 01:39:57 CEST 2018
12/04/2018 16:13, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 12-Apr-18 2:34 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > a compilation error occurred when compiling with CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=n
> >
> > == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal
> > CC eal_vfio.o
> > /download/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c:1535:1: error: no
> > previous prototype for 'rte_vfio_dma_map' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > rte_vfio_dma_map(uint64_t __rte_unused vaddr, __rte_unused uint64_t
> > iova,
> > ^
> > /download/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c:1542:1: error: no
> > previous prototype for 'rte_vfio_dma_unmap' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > rte_vfio_dma_unmap(uint64_t __rte_unused vaddr, uint64_t __rte_unused
> > iova,
> > ^
> >
> > As there is no use for those dummy functions without VFIO removing them
> > completely.
>
> These functions are part of public API, like rest of functions in this
> header. They're in the map file. Should we perhaps go the BSD way and
> provide EAL with dummy prototypes as well? See bsdapp/eal/eal.c:763 onwards.
Why using dummy prototypes?
Because the prototypes in rte_vfio.h are under #ifdef VFIO_PRESENT ?
Is it possible to always define the prototypes in rte_vfio.h ?
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