From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
Cc: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] ethdev: add sanity checks in control APIs
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:57:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2252218.jVnlyW2HoW@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9b84f59-686f-bc1b-89a0-c914bcfae4a1@oktetlabs.ru>
15/04/2021 10:15, Andrew Rybchenko:
> > RTE_FUNC_PTR_OR_ERR_RET(*dev->dev_ops->dev_configure, -ENOTSUP);
>
> In theory, the first argument is sufficient to make the ops
> check, but I think it is the right solution to keep it as is
> since current tendency is to check operation support when
> driver callback is really required and we're going to use it.
> However, if we do it just after port_id check, we'll have a
> way to check for callback support without any side effects
> if we provide invalid argument value. I.e. if -ENOTSUP is
> returned, callback is not supported, if -EINVAL, callback is
> supported (but argument is invalid and nothing done).
> However, it looks a bit fragile and not always possible.
> Thoughts on it are welcome.
Sorry I don't understand it fully.
You say we should check for ENOTSUP at the very beginning?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-15 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-10 9:18 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-12 23:08 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-13 3:23 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-13 3:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-13 8:44 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-13 8:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-13 9:24 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-14 11:12 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-29 17:48 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-04-29 18:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-14 11:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-14 12:00 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-15 0:52 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-15 0:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-15 8:15 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-15 11:09 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-15 11:57 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-04-15 12:03 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-15 12:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-15 12:43 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-15 12:04 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-04-15 12:15 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-16 7:01 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 7:00 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 10:09 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-04-16 10:44 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-15 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-15 15:38 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-16 7:02 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 16:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-15 15:45 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-15 16:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-16 7:04 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-16 6:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 10:22 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-04-16 11:00 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 16:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-17 0:28 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-17 21:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-19 0:34 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-17 7:42 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 11:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-16 11:31 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-16 12:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-17 7:39 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-17 7:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-20 10:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-20 13:59 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-20 14:20 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-04-20 14:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-21 2:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-21 10:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-21 11:28 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-21 12:36 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-21 12:38 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-04-21 13:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-21 13:40 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-21 13:50 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-21 13:50 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-21 14:17 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-21 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-04-21 14:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-21 16:22 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-21 17:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
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