This an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 18.05 announcing a change in the meaning of the return values of the rte_lcore_has_role() function.
Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carri...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 13e8543..15a94cf 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count`` - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse`` +* eal: The semantics of the return value for the ``rte_lcore_has_role`` function + are planned to change in v18.05. The function currently returns 0 and <0 for + success and failure, respectively. This will change to 1 and 0 for true and + false, respectively, to make use of the function more intuitive. + * pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed. The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced: -- 2.6.4
