[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 02/11] eal: introduce internal wrappers for file operations

[Thomas Monjalon]

28/05/2020 12:09, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> On Thu, 28 May 2020 09:59:13 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > 25/05/2020 02:37, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> > > * eal_file_lock: lock or unlock an open file.
> > > * eal_file_truncate: enforce a given size for an open file.  
> > [...]
> > > Implementation for Linux and FreeBSD is placed in "unix" subdirectory,
> > > which is intended for common code between the two. Files should be named
> > > after the ones from which the code is factored in OS subdirectory.  
> > [...]
> > >  lib/librte_eal/unix/eal_unix.c             | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++  
> > 
> > Why naming this file eal_unix?
> > If it's truly global, it should be unix/eal.c
> 
> We've already discussed this: Makefiles are written in such way that files in
> common and arch directories must have distinct names for OS-specific ones.
> Until Makefiles exist, this is consistent naming with the rest of librte_eal.

Oh right.

> > If it's only about file operations, it could be unix/eal_file.c
> 
> Good suggestion, given that more file-related functions are expected to be
> extracted here in future (e.g. for tracing).
> 
> > Please update MAINTAINERS when creating a new file.
> > All files or directories must be listed in MAINTAINERS,
> > even if there is no maintainer for them.
> 
> Will do.

Thanks