Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/3] doc: announce API change for mempool IOVA populate

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:58 PM Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> wrote:
>
> Starting from v20.05, rte_mempool_populate_iova() will return
> -ENOBUFS. The ABI will be preserved through symbol versioning until

This deprecation notice describes a 0 return value, not -ENOBUFS.



> 20.11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index afa94b43e..e11c7f436 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -86,3 +86,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
>    In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
>    (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.
> +
> +* mempool: starting from v20.05, the API of rte_mempool_populate_iova()
> +  and rte_mempool_populate_virt() will change to return 0 instead
> +  of -EINVAL when there is not enough room to store one object. The ABI
> +  will be preserved until 20.11.
> --
> 2.20.1
>

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David Marchand