[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples: fix return value of function that parses portmask

[Thomas Monjalon]

21/07/2020 18:07, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 05:36:24PM +0500, Sarosh Arif wrote:
> > Giving invalid or zero portmask as command line option to 
> > these applications will have an unexpected response.
> > The reason behind this is that the return value of function
> > that parses portmask is stored in a variable whose datatype is 
> > unsigned int, hence returning -1 in case of zero or
> > invalid portmask causes an unexpected behaviour. 
> > If we return 0 instead of -1 this issue can be resolved.
> > The program already contains the functionality to print
> > "invalid portmask" and program usage if zero is returned.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif at emumba.com>
> > ---
> 
> Checked a number of the examples and all seem to behave similarly to
> described. This looks a good fix.
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks