[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] eal: eal stub to add windows support

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Mar 1 15:30:09 CET 2019


01/03/2019 15:17, Bruce Richardson:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 03:03:02PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 01/03/2019 08:18, Anand Rawat:
> > > +elif host_machine.system() == 'windows' +
> > > dpdk_conf.set('RTE_EXEC_ENV_WINDOWS', 1)
> > 
> > For consistency, it should RTE_EXEC_ENV_WINAPP.
> > 
> For this one you can partially blame me - early internal review suggested
> changing to winapp, but I suggested holding off on the change for community
> consensus. Personally, I  would prefer a little inconsistency and keep it
> as windows for clarity. In future, I also think we should just rename
> linxuapp to linux, and bsdapp to freebsd!

OK I agree to remove APP suffixes.

> However, for now, if the majority prefer winapp, I'm ok with it. [Though I
> can't help reading it as winamp half the time! No llamas involved here
> though!]





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