[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] doc: announce API change to lcore role function

[Thomas Monjalon]

12/01/2018 21:45, Erik Gabriel Carrillo:
> This an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 18.05 announcing a change in
> the meaning of the return values of the rte_lcore_has_role() function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carrillo at intel.com>
> ---
> +* eal: The semantics of the return value for the ``rte_lcore_has_role`` function
> +  are planned to change in v18.05. The function currently returns 0 and <0 for
> +  success and failure, respectively.  This will change to 1 and 0 for true and
> +  false, respectively, to make use of the function more intuitive.

It will introduce some subtle bugs in applications.
We must clearly advertise this API change in the release notes.

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>