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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] function to parse packet headers
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:03:24 +0200
Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Morten,
> 
> > And regarding avoiding code duplicity, I'm pursuing Olivier about merging  
> packet header validation into rte_net_get_ptype() instead of writing a
> separate function.
> >  
> This seems also a good alternative.
> +1
> 
> Regards,
> Rami Rosen
> 

+1
All drivers that don't have hardware support for getting l2/l3 and ptype
information should be calling rte_net_get_ptype() already.