[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] ethdev: fix port id storage

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Jan 17 23:19:06 CET 2018


17/01/2018 23:09, Thomas Monjalon:
> 17/01/2018 22:57, Ferruh Yigit:
> > port_id is now 16bits, update function parameter according.
> > 
> > Fixes: 4c270218aa26 ("ethdev: support security APIs")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: declan.doherty at intel.com
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
> 
> Obviously,
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Not so obvious actually.
It is a good fix, but an API change.
This function was not declared experimental.
It must wait 18.05.

And the function has no doxygen!
And the function was placed randomly in the middle of struct declarations!
One more proof of the poor quality of rte_security stuff.


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