Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/6] ethdev: add API to retrieve multiple ethernet addresses

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 10/13/2021 3:31 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> On 10/13/21 4:37 PM, Konstantin Ananyev wrote:
>> Introduce rte_eth_macaddrs_get() to allow user to retrieve all ethernet
> 
> ethernet -> Ethernet
> 
>> addresses assigned to given port.
>> Change testpmd to use this new function and avoid referencing directly
>> rte_eth_devices[].
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
> 
> except one nit below
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
>> index f4c92b3b5e..dbc14f4a23 100644
>> --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
>> +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
>> @@ -3007,6 +3007,27 @@ int rte_eth_dev_set_rx_queue_stats_mapping(uint16_t port_id,
>>    */
>>   int rte_eth_macaddr_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_ether_addr *mac_addr);
>>   
>> +/**
> 
> Experimental header is missing
> 

I can add while merging to next-net.

>> + * Retrieve the Ethernet addresses of an Ethernet device.
>> + *
>> + * @param port_id
>> + *   The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
>> + * @param ma
>> + *   A pointer to an array of structures of type *ether_addr* to be filled with
>> + *   the Ethernet addresses of the Ethernet device.
>> + * @param num
>> + *   Number of elements in the @p ma array.
>> + *   Note that  rte_eth_dev_info::max_mac_addrs can be used to retrieve
>> + *   max number of Ethernet addresses for given port.
>> + * @return
>> + *   - number of retrieved addresses if successful
>> + *   - (-ENODEV) if *port_id* invalid.
>> + *   - (-EINVAL) if bad parameter.
>> + */
>> +__rte_experimental
>> +int rte_eth_macaddrs_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_ether_addr *ma,
>> +	unsigned int num);
>> +
>>   /**
>>    * Retrieve the contextual information of an Ethernet device.
>>    *
> 
> [snip]
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