From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Dai Subject: [PATCH v6 2/3] doc: change type of return value of adding MAC addr Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 20:44:24 +0800 Message-ID: <1493729065-17090-3-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> References: <1493525507-56304-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> <1493729065-17090-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Wei Dai To: wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net, harish.patil@cavium.com, rasesh.mody@cavium.com, stephen.hurd@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, helin.zhang@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com, jing.d.chen@intel.com, adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com, ed.czeck@atomicrules.com, john.miller@atomicrules.com Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1EE374E for ; Tue, 2 May 2017 14:53:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1493729065-17090-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add following lines in section of API change in release note. If a MAC address fails to be added without this change, it is still stored and may be regarded as a valid one. This may lead to errors in application. The type of return value of eth_mac_addr_add_t in rte_ethdev.h is changed. Any specific NIC also follows this change. Signed-off-by: Wei Dai Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst index 4b47ae1..0bd07f1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst @@ -489,6 +489,13 @@ ABI Changes * The ``rte_cryptodev_info.sym`` structure has new field ``max_nb_sessions_per_qp`` to support drivers which may support limited number of sessions per queue_pair. +* **Return if the MAC address is added successfully or not.** + + If a MAC address fails to be added without this change, it is still stored + and may be regarded as a valid one. This may lead to errors in application. + The type of return value of eth_mac_addr_add_t in rte_ethdev.h is changed. + Any specific NIC also follows this change. + Removed Items ------------- -- 2.7.4