It is the fifth patch series to get rid of void returning functions in ethdev in accordance with deprecation notice [1].
It should be applied on top of [2], [3], [4] and [5]. Functions which return void are bad since they do not provide explicit information to the caller if everything is OK or not. In the case of link info get it is important to know if link info is filled in or not. Unlike previous patch series for other functions, this one does not touch link_update driver callback since it already has return value with different semantics (which is not used in fact). May be negative return values should be kept for errors and positive 1 should report no link status changes. That's why only negative values are treated as errors in the patch series. [1] https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/56969/ [2] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=6279 [3] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=6334 [4] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=6335 [5] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=6308 Andrew Rybchenko (2): net/memif: check status of getting link info app/pipeline: check status of getting link info Igor Romanov (16): net/bonding: fix link speed update in broadcast mode ethdev: change link status get functions return value to int app/testpmd: check status of getting link info net/bonding: check status of getting link info net/ixgbe: check status of getting link info app/proc-info: check status of getting link info app/test: check status of getting link info examples: check status of getting link info examples/bbdev_app: check status of getting link info examples/ip_pipeline: check status of getting link info examples/ethtool: check status of getting link info examples/flow_filtering: check status of getting link info examples/link_status_interrupt: check status of getting link examples/distributor: check status of getting link info examples/qos_sched: check status of getting link info examples/kni: check status of getting link info app/proc-info/main.c | 19 +++--- app/test-pipeline/init.c | 11 +++- app/test-pmd/config.c | 13 +++- app/test-pmd/softnicfwd.c | 16 ++++- app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 10 +++- app/test-pmd/testpmd.h | 1 + app/test-pmd/util.c | 14 +++++ app/test/test_link_bonding.c | 12 +++- app/test/test_pmd_perf.c | 11 +++- app/test/test_pmd_ring.c | 8 ++- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 1 - doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst | 4 ++ doc/guides/sample_app_ug/link_status_intr.rst | 9 ++- drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_8023ad.c | 24 ++++++-- drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_api.c | 19 ++++-- drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++--- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 5 +- drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c | 12 +++- examples/bbdev_app/main.c | 12 +++- examples/distributor/main.c | 14 +++-- examples/ethtool/lib/rte_ethtool.c | 6 +- examples/exception_path/main.c | 10 +++- examples/flow_filtering/main.c | 8 ++- examples/ip_fragmentation/main.c | 10 +++- examples/ip_pipeline/cli.c | 9 ++- examples/ip_pipeline/link.c | 3 +- examples/ip_reassembly/main.c | 10 +++- examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.c | 10 +++- examples/ipv4_multicast/main.c | 10 +++- examples/kni/main.c | 19 +++++- examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c | 10 +++- examples/l2fwd-jobstats/main.c | 10 +++- examples/l2fwd-keepalive/main.c | 10 +++- examples/l2fwd/main.c | 10 +++- examples/l3fwd-acl/main.c | 10 +++- examples/l3fwd-power/main.c | 10 +++- examples/l3fwd/main.c | 10 +++- examples/link_status_interrupt/main.c | 26 ++++++-- examples/load_balancer/init.c | 10 +++- .../client_server_mp/mp_server/init.c | 10 +++- examples/multi_process/symmetric_mp/main.c | 10 +++- .../performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/main.c | 10 +++- examples/qos_sched/init.c | 13 +++- examples/server_node_efd/server/init.c | 10 +++- examples/vm_power_manager/main.c | 10 +++- lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 16 +++-- lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 12 +++- 47 files changed, 477 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1