Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ethdev: export rte_eth_dev_is_detachable function

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2015-11-03 12:35, David Marchand:
> From: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
> 
> It can be useful for application to know if a port can be detached or not.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Leroy <maxime.leroy@6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c          |  2 +-
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h          | 12 ++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ether_version.map |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> index ec1b632..373d29b 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ rte_eth_dev_get_name_by_port(uint8_t port_id, char *name)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int
> +int
>  rte_eth_dev_is_detachable(uint8_t port_id)
>  {
>  	uint32_t drv_flags;
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> index 7cf4af8..350733b 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> @@ -1640,6 +1640,18 @@ int rte_eth_dev_attach(const char *devargs, uint8_t *port_id);
>   */
>  int rte_eth_dev_detach(uint8_t port_id, char *devname);
>  
> +/**
> + * Check if an Ethernet device specified by port identifer is detachable.
> + *
> + * @param port_id
> + *   The port identifier of the device to check if is detachable
> + *
> + * @return
> + *  1 if device is detachable, else 0
> + */
> +int
> +rte_eth_dev_is_detachable(uint8_t port_id);

After more thoughts, we do not need such function to query a capability.
The Bernard's patch add a bit-field to expose such capabilities.
So this patchset is rejected, sorry.