Hi Ferruh,
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On 10/4/2023 1:59 PM, Nithin Dabilpuram wrote:
> > Add IPsec event subtype range for PMD specific code in order to
> > accommodate wide range of errors that PMD supports.
> > These IPsec event subtypes are used when an error doesn't match the
> > spec defined subtypes between RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_UNKNOWN and
> > RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_MAX. Adding this as -ve error range to avoid ABI
> > breakage.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpu...@marvell.com>
> > ---
> > lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h index
> > 8542257721..f949dfc83d 100644
> > --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > @@ -3905,6 +3905,10 @@ struct rte_eth_event_macsec_desc {
> > * eth device.
> > */
> > enum rte_eth_event_ipsec_subtype {
> > + /** PMD specific error start */
> > + RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_PMD_ERROR_START = -256,
> > + /** PMD specific error end */
> > + RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_PMD_ERROR_END = -1,
> > /** Unknown event type */
> > RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_UNKNOWN = 0,
> > /** Sequence number overflow */
> >
>
> I don't see any problem to extend event subtype with custom error range,
> @Akhil, @Anoob what do you think?
[Anoob] Thanks for looping in. I do not see an issue with the approach either.
Acked-by: Anoob Joseph <ano...@marvell.com>
Thanks,
Anoob
