Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/ixgbe: fix issue for e-tag defination

[Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>]

Hi, Wei

Thanks for identifying the root cause.

On 03/30, Wei Zhao wrote:
>An issue has been caused after change definations of bool,
>we had better use uint16_t to define e-tag ethertype, not 8
>bits length bool, that patch will change bool bits length, which
>introduce a bug for etag/etag_strip for x550 NIC. So change
>to the 16 bits defination.
>
>Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>Fixes: ad43b7bce95b ("net/ixgbe: avoid multiple definitions of bool")
>
>Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1@intel.com>
>
>v2:
>-add more info and find root cause for this issue
>---
> drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h
>index e1cd8fd16..c5d0e0912 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h
>+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h
>@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ struct ixgbe_l2_tn_info {
> 	struct rte_hash                    *hash_handle;
> 	bool e_tag_en; /* e-tag enabled */
> 	bool e_tag_fwd_en; /* e-tag based forwarding enabled */
>-	bool e_tag_ether_type; /* ether type for e-tag */
>+	uint16_t e_tag_ether_type; /* ether type for e-tag */
> };
> 
> struct rte_flow {
>-- 
>2.19.1
>

Acked-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel, Thanks.