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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 2/6] ethdev: return named
	opaque type instead of void pointer
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:11:38 +0100
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17/01/2018 22:57, Ferruh Yigit:
> "struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback" is defined as internal data structure and
> used as named opaque type.
> 
> So the functions that are adding callbacks can return objects in this
> type instead of void pointer.

It is an API change.
Let's plan it for 18.05.