[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: Fix doxygen comments of rte_eth_dev_close() and rte_eth_dev_detach()

Tetsuya Mukawa mukawa at igel.co.jp
Thu Jul 9 07:46:04 CEST 2015


The patch fixes doxygen comments of below functions.
 - rte_eth_dev_close()
   Add description about what kind of resources will be freed.
 - rte_eth_dev_detach()
   Add description about when the function can be called.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp>
---
 lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
index 438d59a..3148416 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -1633,6 +1633,8 @@ int rte_eth_dev_attach(const char *devargs, uint8_t *port_id);
 
 /**
  * Detach a Ethernet device specified by port identifier.
+ * This function must be called when the device is in the
+ * closed state.
  *
  * @param port_id
  *   The port identifier of the device to detach.
@@ -1987,6 +1989,8 @@ extern int rte_eth_dev_set_link_down(uint8_t port_id);
 
 /**
  * Close an Ethernet device. The device cannot be restarted!
+ * The function frees all resources except for needed by the
+ * closed state. To free these resources, call rte_eth_dev_detach().
  *
  * @param port_id
  *   The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
-- 
2.1.4



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