From patchwork Tue Oct 18 13:38:08 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Iremonger, Bernard" X-Patchwork-Id: 16673 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF0958D6; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:38:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECCF3978 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:38:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Oct 2016 06:38:15 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,362,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="20889559" Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.237.217.45]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Oct 2016 06:38:14 -0700 From: Bernard Iremonger To: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com Cc: Bernard Iremonger Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:38:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1476797888-29698-2-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 In-Reply-To: <1476797888-29698-1-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com> References: <1476797888-29698-1-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: announce API change for ethdev function X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The _rte_eth_dev_call_process function will change to return "int" and a fourth parameter "void* ret_param" will be added. This change targets release 17.02. Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger Acked-by: John McNamara Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index d5c1490..1d274d8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ Deprecation Notices * mempool: The functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and will be removed in 17.02. It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions. + +* librte_ether: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function + ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int`` + instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.