DPDK uses many different types for socket_id's in its whole code base. This leads to many warnings and casts in DPDK-based applications compiled with -Wconversion.
Announce a treewide consolidation to the return type of rte_socket_id in DPDK 23.11. Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.th...@tu-ilmenau.de> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 05cacb3ea8..7f4c468542 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -96,3 +96,10 @@ Deprecation Notices to have another parameter ``qp_id`` to return the queue pair ID which got error interrupt to the application, so that application can reset that particular queue pair. + +* eal/treewide: currently socket_id's use many different data types + throughout the codebase. This complicates compiling DPDK-based + applications with enabled -Wconversion. Fix this, by changing + all occurences to the return type of rte_socket_id(). + DPDK 23.11 should receive a batch cleanup to a single, consistent + data type. -- 2.38.0
