Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:12 PM, Ferruh Yigit:

On 1/30/2018 6:06 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:

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On 01/29/2018 08:13 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:

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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://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdp

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Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <redacted>
---
  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

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    respectively renamed as ``PKT_TX_VLAN`` and ``PKT_TX_QINQ``. The

old

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    names will be removed in v18.08.
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+* 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 <redacted>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <redacted>

Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <redacted>