20.11.8 patches review and test

[Ali Alnubani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 4:12 PM
> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
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> Subject: Re: 20.11.8 patches review and test
> 
> Hello Ali,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:22 AM Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:
> > I see this documentation build failure on Fedora 37:
> >
> > $ ninja-build -C build doc
> > [..]
> > [2/4] Generating doc/api/doxygen with a custom command
> > FAILED: doc/api/html
> > /root/dpdk/doc/api/generate_doxygen.sh doc/api/doxy-api.conf
> doc/api/html /root/dpdk/doc/api/doxy-html-custom.sh
> > /root/dpdk/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev_pmd.h:489: error: found
> documented return type for rte_cryptodev_pmd_callback_process that
> does not return anything (warning treated as error, aborting now)
> > [..]
> > ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> 
> This looks a lot like: 16de054160e3 ("lib: remove empty return types
> from doxygen comments")

Yes, that's probably the case.

> 
> I don't think this function prototype is really different in the 20.11
> stable branch (putting the __rte_internal tag aside).
> Can you trigger this issue on the main branch?
> 

The main branch doesn't reproduce on the same environment.

> 
> --
> David Marchand