[RESEND v7 1/3] ring: fix unmatched type definition and usage

[Thomas Monjalon]

09/11/2023 11:20, Jie Hai:
> Field 'flags' of struct rte_ring is defined as int type. However,
> it is used as unsigned int. To ensure consistency, change the
> type of flags to unsigned int. Since these two types has the
> same byte size, this change is not an ABI change.
> 
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.v.ananyev at yandex.ru>
> Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> ---
>  lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h b/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h
> index b7708730658a..14dac6495d83 100644
> --- a/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h
> +++ b/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ struct rte_ring_hts_headtail {
>  struct rte_ring {
>  	char name[RTE_RING_NAMESIZE] __rte_cache_aligned;
>  	/**< Name of the ring. */
> -	int flags;               /**< Flags supplied at creation. */
> +	uint32_t flags;               /**< Flags supplied at creation. */

This triggers a warning in our ABI checker:

      in pointed to type 'struct rte_ring' at rte_ring_core.h:119:1:
        type size hasn't changed
        1 data member change:
          type of 'int flags' changed:
            entity changed from 'int' to compatible type 'typedef uint32_t' at stdint-uintn.h:26:1
              type name changed from 'int' to 'unsigned int'
              type size hasn't changed

I guess we were supposed to merge this in 23.11, sorry about this.

How can we proceed?