From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Stanislaw Kardach <kda@semihalf.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medvedkin@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Frank Zhao <Frank.Zhao@starfivetech.com>,
Sam Grove <sam.grove@sifive.com>,
upstream@semihalf.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] lpm: add const to lpm arg of rte_lpm_lookup
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 08:29:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ypm4PvKmVvpBy2ff@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1821120.CQOukoFCf9@thomas>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 10:52:25PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 01/06/2022 13:15, Stanislaw Kardach:
> > All other rte_lpm_lookup* functions take lpm argument as a const. As the
> > basic rte_lpm_lookup() performs the same function, it should also do
> > that.
> >
> > As this function is inline, no API/ABI change happens.
>
> It is an API change and should be noted in the release notes.
>
> > static inline int
> > -rte_lpm_lookup(struct rte_lpm *lpm, uint32_t ip, uint32_t *next_hop)
> > +rte_lpm_lookup(const struct rte_lpm *lpm, uint32_t ip, uint32_t *next_hop)
>
While I've no particular objection to it appearing in the RN doc, I wonder
whether it really counts as an API change. I can't see any practical
difference that this change would make to the end user - no source code
needs updating for example.
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-03 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-01 11:15 Stanislaw Kardach
2022-06-01 11:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] lpm: add a scalar version of lookupx4 function Stanislaw Kardach
2022-06-01 11:52 ` Medvedkin, Vladimir
2022-06-03 9:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-06-02 20:52 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] lpm: add const to lpm arg of rte_lpm_lookup Thomas Monjalon
2022-06-03 7:29 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2022-06-03 7:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
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