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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ian.stokes@intel.com, ktraynor@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net: add endianness annotations to ethernet headers
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 15:09:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210511130930.GH1726@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210506151426.28202-2-david.marchand@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 05:14:25PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> Spotted by sparse in OVS build:
> 
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:789:27:
> error: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:789:27:
> expected unsigned short [usertype] ether_type
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:789:27:
> got restricted ovs_be16 [usertype]
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:829:25:
> error: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:829:25:
> expected unsigned short [usertype] vlan_tci
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:829:25:
> got restricted ovs_be16 [usertype]
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:830:26:
> error: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:830:26:
> expected unsigned short [usertype] eth_proto
> /home/runner/work/ovs/ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h:830:26:
> got restricted ovs_be16 [usertype]
> 
> This was not caught before as no code in headers was using those fields.
> This changed with commit 6f2168b69aee ("ethdev: reuse ethernet header
> definition in flow item") and commit a56a262e3408 ("ethdev: reuse VLAN
> header definition in flow item").
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

I was wondering if it wouldn't be safer to change the initializer
instead of the structure definition, to avoid any API breakage.

But after some off-list discussions, it appears that there is no API
breakage (rte_be16_t is a typedef to uint16_t), and this kind of changes
was already done in the past.

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-11 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-06 15:14 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] 21.05 fixes for OVS David Marchand
2021-05-06 15:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net: add endianness annotations to ethernet headers David Marchand
2021-05-11 13:09   ` Olivier Matz [this message]
2021-05-06 15:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net: fix header include order for FreeBSD David Marchand
2021-05-06 22:23   ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-05-07  9:06     ` David Marchand
2021-05-07 19:12       ` Ben Pfaff
2021-05-07 19:13         ` Ben Pfaff
2021-05-10 11:25           ` David Marchand
2021-05-11 13:09   ` Olivier Matz
2021-05-07 12:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] 21.05 fixes for OVS David Marchand
2021-05-07 13:15   ` Aaron Conole
2021-05-11 13:40 ` David Marchand

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