From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1EE374E for ; Tue, 2 May 2017 14:53:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 May 2017 05:52:47 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.37,405,1488873600"; d="scan'208";a="96617937" Received: from dpdk6.bj.intel.com ([172.16.182.81]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 May 2017 05:52:43 -0700 From: Wei Dai To: wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net, harish.patil@cavium.com, rasesh.mody@cavium.com, stephen.hurd@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, helin.zhang@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com, jing.d.chen@intel.com, adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com, ed.czeck@atomicrules.com, john.miller@atomicrules.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Wei Dai Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 20:44:24 +0800 Message-Id: <1493729065-17090-3-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1493729065-17090-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> References: <1493525507-56304-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> <1493729065-17090-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/3] doc: change type of return value of adding MAC addr X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 12:53:02 -0000 Add following lines in section of API change in release note. If a MAC address fails to be added without this change, it is still stored and may be regarded as a valid one. This may lead to errors in application. The type of return value of eth_mac_addr_add_t in rte_ethdev.h is changed. Any specific NIC also follows this change. Signed-off-by: Wei Dai Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst index 4b47ae1..0bd07f1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst @@ -489,6 +489,13 @@ ABI Changes * The ``rte_cryptodev_info.sym`` structure has new field ``max_nb_sessions_per_qp`` to support drivers which may support limited number of sessions per queue_pair. +* **Return if the MAC address is added successfully or not.** + + If a MAC address fails to be added without this change, it is still stored + and may be regarded as a valid one. This may lead to errors in application. + The type of return value of eth_mac_addr_add_t in rte_ethdev.h is changed. + Any specific NIC also follows this change. + Removed Items ------------- -- 2.7.4