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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: avoid usage of uninit device info in bad port case
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:50:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4582049.OHkX9IKj5f@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <580e3eb6-6011-307c-5480-ffd9c7539b53@solarflare.com>

23/07/2019 14:16, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 7/23/19 1:40 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > On 7/23/2019 10:13 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> >> rte_eth_dev_info_get() returns void and caller does know if the function
> >> does its job or not. Changing of the return value to int would be
> >> API/ABI breakage which requires deprecation process and cannot be
> >> backported to stable branches. For now, make sure that device info is
> >> initialized even in the case of invalid port ID.
> > +1 to return a status from function for long term.
> 
> Thomas, what do you think? Should we finally fix it?
> I think it is almost harmless API/ABI breakage.
> If yes, I'll send deprecation notice to do it in v19.11.

Yes, generally speaking we should not have any void return in API.




  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-23 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-23  9:13 Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-23 10:40 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-07-23 12:16   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-23 12:50     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-07-23 12:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-23 13:14   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-23 13:34     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-07-23 13:39       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-23 18:45         ` Thomas Monjalon

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