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From: "Mauricio Vásquez" <mauricio.vasquezbernal@studenti.polito.it>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_ether: use RTE_ETH_VALID_PORTID_OR_ERR_RET to check port_id
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:41:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPwdgqg5K-zRtaFLpucVZdGX_M9ZYAkF=PwJinpuwxFTrfpyfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2109161.zCfKjVzhiS@xps13>

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com
> wrote:

> 2016-05-17 22:02, Mauricio Vásquez:
> > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Thomas Monjalon <
> thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 2016-04-29 17:23, Mauricio Vasquez B:
> > > > The RTE_ETH_VALID_PORTID_OR_ERR_RET macro is used in some places
> > > > to check if a port id is valid or not. This commit makes use of it in
> > > > some new parts of the code.
> > >
> > > There are other occurences:
> > >         rte_eth_dev_socket_id
> > >
> > I missed it.
> >
> > >         rte_eth_add_rx_callback
> > >         rte_eth_add_tx_callback
> > >         rte_eth_remove_rx_callback
> > >         rte_eth_remove_tx_callback
> > >
> > The macro can not be used on those ones because they set the rte_errno
> > variable before returning.
>
> It may be a good idea to set rte_errno to EINVAL in these macros.
>
> Generally speaking, rte_errno is not used a lot currently.


I noticed that both EINVAL and ENODEV are used. I think that returning
ENODEV and setting rte_errno to EINVAL would be strange, what do you think
about always using ENODEV?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-18 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-29 15:23 Mauricio Vasquez B
2016-05-13 16:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-17 20:02   ` Mauricio Vásquez
2016-05-18  8:15     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-18 14:41       ` Mauricio Vásquez [this message]
2016-05-18 15:01         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-18 15:25           ` Mauricio Vásquez
2016-05-18 15:43             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-18 19:14               ` Mauricio Vásquez
2016-05-17 20:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Mauricio Vasquez B
2016-05-18 19:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Mauricio Vasquez B
2016-05-24 13:31     ` Thomas Monjalon

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