[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v14 6/9] app/testpmd: fix parse_fec_mode return type name

[Jie Zhou]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 07:29:11AM -0700, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 01:55:02PM +0300, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> > On 6/24/21 1:34 AM, Jie Zhou wrote:
> > >Replace parse_fec_mode misleading return type name mode with fec_capa
> > >
> > >Fixes: b19da32e3151 ("app/testpmd: add FEC command")
> > >Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Jie Zhou <jizh at microsoft.com>
> > >Signed-off-by: Jie Zhou <jizh at linux.microsoft.com>
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > >diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h
> > >index 283b5e3680..9ae4d90dd1 100644
> > >--- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h
> > >+++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h
> > >@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ void show_tx_pkt_segments(void);
> > >  void set_tx_pkt_times(unsigned int *tx_times);
> > >  void show_tx_pkt_times(void);
> > >  void set_tx_pkt_split(const char *name);
> > >-int parse_fec_mode(const char *name, enum rte_eth_fec_mode *mode);
> > >+int parse_fec_mode(const char *name, uint32_t *fec_capa);
> > 
> > I guess that the real reason behind is to fix implicit
> > conversion of enum pointer to/from uint32_t pointer.
> > I guess the problem is different signness of enum on
> > Windows compiler.
> 
> yes, compilers targeting targets will select `int' once all constants of
> the enumeration list are defined.
> 
> > 
> > If so, please, put real motivation of the changeset in summary.
> > It should be human-readable (and do not contain function name).
> > Explain details in the description.
> > 
> > Yes, I agree that mode is misleading here and should be mentioned
> > in the description, but I guess it is not the root cause.
> > May be I'm wrong.

Your understanding on the root cause is corret. Will fix the description in V15. Thanks.