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On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:34:12 -0500
Honnappa Nagarahalli [off-list ref] wrote:

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+	/* Control thread status.
+	 *
+	 * _RTE_CTRL_THREAD_LAUNCHING - Yet to call pthread_create

function

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+	 * _RTE_CTRL_THREAD_RUNNING - Control thread is running

successfully

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+	 * _RTE_CTRL_THREAD_ERROR - Control thread encountered an error.
+	 *                          'ret' has the error code.
+	 */
+	unsigned int ctrl_thread_status;

An enum would be clearer here.

I used #defines as the values are assigned to an atomic variable. We can assume that enum will be an int.