ixgbe-specific bypass functions

ixgbe-specific bypass functions

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi Bernard,

You moved some VF functions to ixgbe.h.
Do you think we could do the same kind of work to move
bypass functions from ethdev to ixgbe API?
I would see a 2 steps move:

1/ in 17.02
* copy functions in ixgbe.h
* use them in testpmd
* deprecate ethdev functions

2/ in 17.05
* remove bypass functions from ethdev

Re: ixgbe-specific bypass functions

[Iremonger, Bernard]

Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 2:24 PM
> To: Iremonger, Bernard <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: ixgbe-specific bypass functions
> 
> Hi Bernard,
> 
> You moved some VF functions to ixgbe.h.
> Do you think we could do the same kind of work to move bypass functions
> from ethdev to ixgbe API?
> I would see a 2 steps move:
> 
> 1/ in 17.02
> * copy functions in ixgbe.h
> * use them in testpmd
> * deprecate ethdev functions
> 
> 2/ in 17.05
> * remove bypass functions from ethdev

I don't think that I will have time to do step 1 in 17.02 apart from sending the deprecation notice.
I will add step 1 and step 2 to the task list for 17.05.

Regards,

Bernard.