[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: replace callback getting filter operations

[Thomas Monjalon]

15/03/2021 08:18, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 3/12/21 8:46 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c
> > @@ -255,18 +255,19 @@ rte_flow_ops_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_flow_error *error)
> >  
> >  	if (unlikely(!rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port(port_id)))
> >  		code = ENODEV;
> > -	else if (unlikely(!dev->dev_ops->filter_ctrl ||
> > -			  dev->dev_ops->filter_ctrl(dev,
> > -						    RTE_ETH_FILTER_GENERIC,
> > -						    RTE_ETH_FILTER_GET,
> > -						    &ops) ||
> > -			  !ops))
> > -		code = ENOSYS;
> > +	else if (unlikely(dev->dev_ops->flow_ops_get == NULL))
> > +		code = ENOTSUP;
> >  	else
> > -		return ops;
> > -	rte_flow_error_set(error, code, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
> > -			   NULL, rte_strerror(code));
> > -	return NULL;
> > +		code = dev->dev_ops->flow_ops_get(dev, &ops);
> > +	if (code == 0 && ops == NULL)
> > +		code = EACCES;
> 
> It looks something new. I think it should be mentioned in flow_ops_get
> type documentation (similar to eth_promiscuous_enable_t) and
> rte_flow_validate() etc functions
> return values description.

It is an internal function used only in rte_flow.c.
The real consequence is to set rte_errno in a lot of rte_flow API.
Not sure there is a good way to document the code details.
Other codes are not documented in rte_flow.h