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From: "Dai, Wei" <wei.dai@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] ethdev: fix adding invalid MAC addr
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 00:16:16 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] ethdev: fix adding invalid MAC addr
>=20
> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:44:23PM +0800, Wei Dai wrote:
> > Some customers find adding MAC addr to VF sometimes can fail, but it
> > is still stored in dev->data->mac_addrs[ ]. So this can lead to some
> > errors that assumes the non-zero entry in
> > dev->data->mac_addrs[ ] is valid.
> > Following acknowledgements are from specific NIC PMD maintainer for
> > their managing part.
> >
> > Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
>=20
>=20
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>=20
> Just a note, this patch changes API. It should not be backported to a sta=
ble/LTS
> release, even though it fixes something.
>=20
> 	--yliu

Thank you, Yuanhan. I will drop the "Cc: stable@dpdk.org" in my v7 patch se=
t.