From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>
Cc: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"nhorman@tuxdriver.com" <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] checkpatch failing on map change
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:23:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191217082302.37e24da8@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MN2PR18MB23989F4988B3B758983DA5C9C6500@MN2PR18MB2398.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:36:20 +0000
Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> One of our drivers is using the rte_cfgfile and meson is failing on 'rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index' which is undefined.
>
> After a few debug cycles, I found out that this function is missing from the .map file.
>
> So I added it and created a patch but checkpatch is failing with
>
>
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> ERROR: symbol rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index is added in the DPDK_20.0 section, but is expected to be added in the EXPERIMENTAL section of the version map
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>
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> Do you know what it means and how to fix it? The function is not defined as experimental so I don't understand what is the problem
It means checkpatch is not infallible. It is only an advisor.
In this case, it doesn't understand how to deal with a bug fix.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-17 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 7:36 Liron Himi
2019-12-17 8:15 ` David Marchand
2019-12-17 8:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Liron Himi
2019-12-17 16:23 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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