[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eventdev: improve API docs for timeout ticks

[Harry van Haaren]

Improve the documentation of the return values of the
rte_event_dequeue_timeout_ticks() function, adding a
-ENOTSUP value for eventdevs that do not support waiting.

Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>

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Discussion and previous Acked from:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-March/059419.html
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 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
index 7073987..bb216b4 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
@@ -1158,7 +1158,9 @@ rte_event_enqueue_burst(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t port_id,
  *
  * @return
  *  - 0 on success.
- *  - <0 on failure.
+ *  - -ENOTSUP if the device doesn't support timeouts
+ *  - -EINVAL if *dev_id* is invalid or *timeout_ticks* is NULL
+ *  - other values < 0 on failure.
  *
  * @see rte_event_dequeue_burst(), RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT
  * @see rte_event_dev_configure()
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2.7.4