[dpdk-dev] [RFC] lib/librte_ether: add a return value for MAC set ops

Olivier Matz olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Mon Jan 29 09:25:07 CET 2018


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:54:43PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 1/26/2018 2:19 AM, Lu, Wenzhuo wrote:
> > Hi Olivier,
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz at 6wind.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:40 PM
> >> To: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>
> >> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] lib/librte_ether: add a return value for MAC set
> >> ops
> >>
> >> Hi Wenzhuo,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:46:57AM +0800, Wenzhuo Lu wrote:
> >>> Setting the default MAC address may fail on many NICs.
> >>> But the ops return void. So, even it failed, RTE changes the MAC
> >>> address and APP doesn't know the failure.
> >>>
> >>> It's not real patch, just show the idea to add a return value for the
> >>> ops.
> >>
> >> Thank you for taking care of this. I had some plans to work on it too, as
> >> discussed here:
> >> https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32284/
> > Sorry, didn't notice that. Glad to know you're working on that. So you'll continue, right?
> 
> Plan was send PMD fixes and deprecation notice on this release and send fix next
> release [1].
> 
> I think PMD fixes are merged now, but deprecation notice not send yet.
> 
> [1]
> https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085195.html

Yes, I'll send the deprecation notice today.


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