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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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, 03 Jun 2022 09:43:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2111317.Mh6RI2rZIc@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ypm4PvKmVvpBy2ff@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

03/06/2022 09:29, Bruce Richardson:
> 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.

Yes you're right, we can skip the release notes here.



      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-03  7:44 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
2022-06-03  7:43     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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