On 5 September 2014 03:56, Taras Kondratiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/04/2014 10:19 PM, Mike Holmes wrote: > >> I think that is true by definition following Taras's logic from a thread >> a few weeks ago. The rational was that that helpers are users of the API >> to add higher functionality for an application to use, they don't help >> the implementation. >> >> However that breaks IPC I think, I have not read the latest patch, but >> that wants to use odph_ring.h - unless IPC is a helper, but I thought >> it was part of ODP. >> > > I was thinking of helpers as a next layer on top of ODP which provides > some additional functionality, but as Bill noted some helpers may not > use ODP API and can be called even before ODP init. Maybe it worth to > call such helpers in a special way to distinguish them. > I agree that pre and post gloabl_init ones should be easy to distinguish. > > There is no restriction for helpers to be called from both sides: > implementation and application. Like we have IP header structure used > by linux-generic and applications. > -- *Mike Holmes* Linaro Technical Manager / Lead LNG - ODP
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