Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] doc: add mbuf reorg to PMD todo list

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:42:37 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> To track modification:
> 8f094a9ac5d7 ("mbuf: set mbuf fields while in pool")
> 
> Proposed deadline for PMDs is v18.02
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/nics/todo.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst b/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
> index 874811ad5..b408fc691 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
> @@ -36,8 +36,17 @@ This is the list for tracking required PMD changes triggered by library modifica
>  
>  .. table:: PMDs internal TODO list
>  
> - +------+------+----------+----------------+------+
> - | TODO | PMDs | Deadline | Related Commit | Note |
> - +======+======+==========+================+======+
> - |      |      |          |                |      |
> - +------+------+----------+----------------+------+
> + +-------------------+--------------------------------+----------+----------------+-----------------------------------+
> + | TODO              | PMDs                           | Deadline | Related Commit | Note                              |
> + +===================+================================+==========+================+===================================+
> + | mbuf organisation | | af_packet, ark, avp, bnx2x,  | v18.02   | 8f094a9ac5d7   | Remove unnecessary mbuf field     |
> + |                   | | bnxt, bonding, cxgbe, dpaa,  |          |                | initialization.                   |
> + |                   | | dpaa2, e1000, ena,           |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | failsafe, fm10k,             |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | kni, mlx4,                   |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | mrvl, nfp, octeontx,         |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | pcap, qede, ring, sfc,       |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | softnic, szedata2, tap,      |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | thunderx, vhost,             |          |                |                                   |
> + |                   | | vmxnet3                      |          |                |                                   |
> + +-------------------+--------------------------------+----------+----------------+-----------------------------------+

NAK

This open source, if the fix is trivial please just fix all the drivers directly now.
These TODO lists never get done.