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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