[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal: fix positive error codes from probe/remove

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:37 PM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com> wrote:

> On 03.06.2019 11:50, David Marchand wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:26 PM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com
> <mailto:i.maximets at samsung.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     According to API, 'rte_dev_probe()' and 'rte_dev_remove()' and their
> >     'hotplug' equivalents must return 0 or negative error code. Bus code
> >
> >
> > About this first part, existing callers in dpdk are not consistent with
> the api which might explain why this was not seen earlier.
> > How about fixing the existing callers?
>
> Do you mean replacing all the 'rte_dev_probe() != 0' with 'rte_dev_probe()
> < 0'
> around the codebase?
>

Yes.
It is not necessary to this patch so I can handle it if you don't have time.
But dpdk should show a good example by respecting its own apis description.


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David Marchand