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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: arnon@qwilt.com, david.marchand@redhat.com, stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change to remove exit calls in libs
Date: Wed,  8 May 2019 22:54:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190508205413.31134-1-thomas@monjalon.net> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190508205413.hpaTL6s-pID0LrX5e682jLX9Iph4UU03ceioPhgW7GA@z> (raw)

Two public functions from EAL and metrics libraries need to return
some new error codes instead of calling rte_panic or rte_exit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index b47c8c254..e61278429 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
+* eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes
+  after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``.
+
 * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
@@ -82,3 +85,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
   structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
   ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
+
+* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
+  in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
-- 
2.21.0


             reply	other threads:[~2019-05-08 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-08 20:54 Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-05-08 20:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-09  5:31 ` Arnon Warshavsky
2019-05-09  5:31   ` Arnon Warshavsky
2019-05-13 20:54   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-13 20:54     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-09  7:34 ` David Marchand
2019-05-09  7:34   ` David Marchand
2019-05-09  7:38   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-09  7:38     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-09 14:55 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-05-09 14:55   ` Ferruh Yigit

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