[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: add return value to stats get dev op

[Thomas Monjalon]

11/10/2017 15:09, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 10/11/2017 01:46 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 11/10/2017 04:09, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> On 10/11/2017 3:01 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >>> On 10/10/2017 9:20 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
> >>>> The stats_get dev op API doesn't include return value, so PMD cannot
> >>>> return an error in case of failure at stats getting process time.
> >>>>
> >>>> Since PCI devices can be removed and there is a time between the
> >>>> physical removal to the RMV interrupt, the user may get invalid stats
> >>>> without any indication.
> >>>>
> >>>> This patch changes the stats_get API return value to be int instead of
> >>>> void.
> >>>>
> >>>> All the net PMDs stats_get dev ops are adjusted by this patch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> >> Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
> > It is breaking compilation of tests:
> >
> > test/test/virtual_pmd.c:256:15: fatal error: incompatible pointer types
> >        initializing 'eth_stats_get_t' (aka 'int (*)(struct rte_eth_dev *, struct rte_eth_stats *)')
> >        with an expression of type 'void (struct rte_eth_dev *, struct rte_eth_stats *)'
> >        [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
> >          .stats_get = virtual_ethdev_stats_get,
> 
> I've bumped into it this morning as well:
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/30090/

Thank you Andrew.

Ferruh, please squash Andrew's patches to avoid any compilation issue.