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

[Thomas Monjalon]

25/01/2018 03:46, Wenzhuo Lu:
> 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.
> 
> BTW,
> Seems we should do the same thing for
> rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_remove as it also has chance to fail
> in PMD layer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>

Superseded by "ethdev: return diagnostic when setting MAC address"
	http://dpdk.org/commit/caccf8b318