From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] ethdev: fix adding invalid MAC addr Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 16:21:53 +0200 Message-ID: <7497469.TuTdfvjb2m@xps> References: <1493729065-17090-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> <1493944802-52943-1-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> <1493944802-52943-2-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, harish.patil@cavium.com, rasesh.mody@cavium.com, stephen.hurd@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, helin.zhang@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com, jing.d.chen@intel.com, adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com, ed.czeck@atomicrules.com, john.miller@atomicrules.com To: Wei Dai Return-path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9322986 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 16:21:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1493944802-52943-2-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 05/05/2017 02:40, Wei Dai: > 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. > > This patch changes the ethdev API, it should not be > backported to a stable/LTS release so far. It changes only the internal function pointer used by drivers, not the API.