21/04/2019 21:16, Arnon Warshavsky: > Hi, > I should be able to address this for 19.08, at least the straight forward > parts. > I need to touch base again with this patchset later this week, > to see what changed since then, and see what deprecation notices are > required. > I would like to address the ones that are a direct part of the > initialization sequence, > and mostly change functions and their callers from void to return a value > that propagates upwards. > The 2nd kind under lib that I wanted to remove at the time are the ones > that live in threads and I would not like to handle them now. > Given a 3rd kind that is found inside PMDs that may panic during callbacks, > the former poses a similar challenge of managing the device state after a > panic event which is not trivial, > and tmho deserves either a separate patchset or a defeat recognition. > > In this respect , In addition to removing the ones from the initialization > sequence, > I would like to revive my original proposal to add a callback registration > to the panic event. > As I do not expect all the PMD callback panics to disappear completely, > I still need to allow the running process to do some kind of orderly > tear-down to other modules when possible. > > Does this sound ok for 19.08?
That would be great to get some progress in 19.08. Do not hesitate to split in several patchsets, getting easy ones first and open discussions other ones.
