Hi, On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:54:43PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 1/26/2018 2:19 AM, Lu, Wenzhuo wrote: > > Hi Olivier, > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.m...@6wind.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:40 PM > >> To: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo...@intel.com> > >> Cc: dev@dpdk.org > >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] lib/librte_ether: add a return value for MAC > >> set > >> ops > >> > >> Hi Wenzhuo, > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:46:57AM +0800, Wenzhuo Lu wrote: > >>> Setting the default MAC address may fail on many NICs. > >>> But the ops return void. So, even it failed, RTE changes the MAC > >>> address and APP doesn't know the failure. > >>> > >>> It's not real patch, just show the idea to add a return value for the > >>> ops. > >> > >> Thank you for taking care of this. I had some plans to work on it too, as > >> discussed here: > >> https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32284/ > > Sorry, didn't notice that. Glad to know you're working on that. So you'll > > continue, right? > > Plan was send PMD fixes and deprecation notice on this release and send fix > next > release [1]. > > I think PMD fixes are merged now, but deprecation notice not send yet. > > [1] > https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085195.html
Yes, I'll send the deprecation notice today.