On 01/29/2018 08:13 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
Announce internal PMD API change in the function to set the default MAC
address. The objective is to be able to notify errors occurring in the
PMD.
Link: https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32284/
Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 43a39d827..8ad4407c2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -76,3 +76,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
* mbuf: The mbuf flags ``PKT_TX_VLAN_PKT`` and ``PKT_TX_QINQ_PKT`` are
respectively renamed as ``PKT_TX_VLAN`` and ``PKT_TX_QINQ``. The old
names will be removed in v18.08.
+
+* ethdev: The prototype and the behavior of
+ ``dev_ops->eth_mac_addr_set()`` will change in v18.05. A return code
+ will be added to notify the caller if an error occurred in the PMD. In
+ ``rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set()``, the new default MAC address
+ will be copied in ``dev->data->mac_addrs[0]`` only if the operation is
+ succesfull. This modification will only impact the PMDs, not the
+ applications.
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com>
