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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: fix ethdev start return value
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:32:05 +0200
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07/06/2017 12:34, Pavan Nikhilesh:
> From: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
> 
> If ethdev has already started it should return -EBUSY instead of 0 when
> rte_eth_dev_start is called.

It is an API change and must be announced in a deprecation notice.

>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Please update the doxygen in .h.