From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F540558C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2016 12:49:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Jul 2016 03:49:28 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,579,1459839600"; d="scan'208";a="1001175458" Received: from dwdohert-dpdk.ir.intel.com ([163.33.210.152]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Jul 2016 03:49:27 -0700 To: Pablo de Lara , dev@dpdk.org References: <1467643848-14780-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com From: Declan Doherty Message-ID: <17ede3a2-9b2a-0477-dc81-d2f6dc1acc3b@intel.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:44:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1467643848-14780-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for virtual device initialization X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:49:29 -0000 On 04/07/16 15:50, Pablo de Lara wrote: > In order to create a virtual device, user needs to call > rte_eal_vdev_init generally, but this function returns 0 > on success or negative number if error. Instead, something > more useful would be to return the port or device id of the > device created, so the user can call rte_eal_vdev_init > function and use the device straight away, using the id returned > by the function. > > Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index f502f86..60cc7c7 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -41,3 +41,8 @@ Deprecation Notices > * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and > will be removed in 16.11. > It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. > + > +* The rte_eal_vdev_init function will be changed in 16.11 to return > + the port/device id of the device created, instead of 0, when it has been > + initialized successfully, so user can use the returned value straight away > + to call all the device functions that require that parameter. > Acked-by: Declan Doherty