From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C1E2986 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 16:23:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3408E20CE2; Fri, 5 May 2017 10:23:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 05 May 2017 10:23:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=yWO3/3F2NecBfG4 EB5n/wE03cMzMjhEjg5xW/Z3+xCc=; b=e2pN8r8HWt9ccaNvv5Y8NEpgRJguPqL VUXIv2T7S0HXmekoIYOa9CtCnPPcRQ9gTheCJPFnohshfA0IA797MNAZtFMFHjOI aJ/mr56Kfq2rrOD+LO2uiHeWyz71dEkW5NRIoPeRCk4y0s4EI7npxd6K5iavfQ8y OahPyr9twJpQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=yWO3/3F2NecBfG4EB5n/wE03cMzMjhEjg5xW/Z3+xCc=; b=X1RlXVmt EWQFD0HXdnU9694/A97uWom66bI5zkIAk0xIUMNobusRZuZvLH5rW/5Hc5x2Co9O lWm4POkE3p6WUIpOA1EJfHKY97Cvr8dX8aa27EkYShq3zeKeEQWjsoMSlMR9Tj2N 2asTfKR6FrDn52XM3Stkz/FpIOY1BP0B2/0JIZuYuEf0vxIT/eaQmlWrey0BwznF hC8FGiszADfxWl9G1IBJ1e4/WHPjjpqpKZZub8H7z4yqRRJHZHPsTC8Kwx4Wqxo4 9L1T/AEcfZzToRpxErLdUIbbyaEZ5LuUGXasRIQEA8Q1SVgp9ctPjLa6yN8h5TjD Ea0Y2h9HV41zOg== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: Lm8Z+8H106/VY1drhGW0lLS87de39vlb3782CsRYpmHf 1493994183 Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D77897E718; Fri, 5 May 2017 10:23:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Wei Dai Cc: dev@dpdk.org, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, 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 Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 16:23:03 +0200 Message-ID: <5751614.JobCQIIaUB@xps> In-Reply-To: <1493944802-52943-3-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> References: <1493729065-17090-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> <1493944802-52943-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> <1493944802-52943-3-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 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: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:23:04 -0000 05/05/2017 02:40, Wei Dai: > 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 This patch is rejected because it is neither an API nor an ABI change.