[dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/14] link status API improvement and bugfixes

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:29:09 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 14/07/2017 20:30, Stephen Hemminger:
> > While writing new driver, I noticed a lot of unnecessary duplication of
> > code in drivers for handling the eth_dev link status information. While
> > consolidating this, it also became obvious that several drivers have
> > bugs in this are because they don't return the correct value.
> > Also, some drivers were not fully initializing all the space (including
> > padding).  
> 
> Good initiative.
> Please, could you spin a new version not RFC?
> 
> > This is compile test only at this point, I don't have any of the hardware
> > available (except virtio) to test.  
> 
> I think we should integrate it in 18.02-rc1 so everybody will be forced
> to test it.
> 

Let's change the name then to.
  rte_eth_linkstatus_set
  rte_eth_linkstatus_get