On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:54 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> Two public functions from EAL and metrics libraries need to return > some new error codes instead of calling rte_panic or rte_exit. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index b47c8c254..e61278429 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Deprecation Notices > * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter > for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. > > +* eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes > + after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``. > + > Nit: do we need error codes ? or only a single new error code ? * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in > v18.11. > New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes > of > device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent > with the > @@ -82,3 +85,6 @@ Deprecation Notices > * cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the > xforms > structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and > ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``. > + > +* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return > + in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``. > -- > 2.21.0 > > Acked-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> -- David Marchand
