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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Feb 14 11:59:12 CET 2018


14/02/2018 01:09, 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>

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