[dpdk-dev] net/pcap: set rte_errno on TX error

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-07-25 14:33, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 7/25/2016 2:10 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> > This returns the error code provided by pcap_sendpacket()
> 
> Although this is good idea, this adds undocumented side effect to
> rte_eth_tx_burst().
> 
> I am not able to find any information in rte_eth_tx_burst() that it can
> alter rte_errno.
> 
> Since rte_errno is shared resource, it shouldn't be updated without
> documented.

That's something I was looking into.
Maybe we should generalize the use of rte_errno in 16.11?