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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>,
	luca.boccassi@gmail.com, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, wei.dai@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethdev: pre-emptively document rte_eth_dev_reset error code
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:11:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3757028.oCNDDIN3Jm@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8b9604d-c718-8b1a-c97d-3c3ebd24a295@intel.com>

19/10/2017 16:53, Remy Horton:
> 
> On 19/10/2017 14:48, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > Document it immediately even if it's not yet supported, so that users
> > and developers can already take into account about this use case, and
> > thus avoid an API-incompatible change later on.
> 
> I'm not sure about documenting unimplemented features, as API docs ought 
> to describe what the code currently does. Then again reason seems OK and 
> I don't think there's hard guidelines on this..

An API does not need to be implemented to describe its behaviour.
We just have to agree about which behaviour we want to expect.

It seems this error code is reasonable.
But I am not sure you need to give the details about the cause
of the error. The most important is to advise app writer to retry
resetting later when the device is ready. Isn't it?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-23 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19 13:48 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: document rte_eth_dev_reset return codes luca.boccassi
2017-10-19 13:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ethdev: pre-emptively document rte_eth_dev_reset error code luca.boccassi
2017-10-19 14:53   ` Remy Horton
2017-10-19 16:14     ` Luca Boccassi
2017-10-24  6:18       ` Remy Horton
2017-10-24 12:01         ` Luca Boccassi
2017-10-23 22:11     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-10-24 12:00       ` Luca Boccassi
2017-10-19 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ethdev: document rte_eth_dev_reset return codes Remy Horton
2017-10-24 11:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " luca.boccassi
2017-10-24 11:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] ethdev: pre-emptively document rte_eth_dev_reset error code luca.boccassi
2017-10-24 12:29     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-24 12:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: document rte_eth_dev_reset return codes Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-24 13:19     ` Luca Boccassi
2017-10-24 13:19   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] ethdev: document error codes of reset luca.boccassi
2017-10-24 13:19     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] ethdev: document new error code for reset luca.boccassi
2017-10-24 20:41     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] ethdev: document error codes of reset Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-25 12:01       ` Luca Boccassi
2017-10-25 16:08         ` Ferruh Yigit

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