From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6314920C9F; Fri, 5 May 2017 10:21:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 05 May 2017 10:21:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=2NUoK7c71p7cYPO Afz0reCN2ZcJi3/ZM/pzr/Fa/d34=; b=ZYPOUe0HrwqldDpbae4BrBy3aXHYifA oLCNOwsYH/g4H0yvIzeYs19s0dkRgG+15d9MrI+UKZvhBxNkUmT90/y3AIXlwev+ JqRDbwYvEP19AtW/1KKwumHyuWg2mzTduq18WfAWCRFrNIuGtE5aqVTgS65M3nWV 2ZsNWf9C+A+M= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=2NUoK7c71p7cYPOAfz0reCN2ZcJi3/ZM/pzr/Fa/d34=; b=H54V4Gx7 Q0nRxyRRVtqvpYLzeZMfVYYZfU3CLhzadx+4pMmJU3X0FCF9pbiP352wmt84eTeM 8EDFAB5s/GNbT7qQi+JZrcHVZ2a9CLrm1Myc9t1ybZK586AYTB+iu57Y0qdIcsGb SGtf75my5V4aOOYShw15qNsVUOp5SuvyNSa6Cbre17YZrdfN1YMrojb3haxcQ/12 yXNr1lB4IUc0iYe3U0FjrO15OjhpSBG50vpiCksTeCkC+gyTR60nBIw14nXFEjVu Bvh82L4u/oYKEhRN5jqkdpcDfYh4WpmQI/TyzNKpuI2puEv6l8tgUhQXKL/BUc5p 7+DlRJoh1RUbFw== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: xlyDkdIhjEjuL5kNEXsN/iWupy7NRjKdl8GsinmYgwnT 1493994114 Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 15F5524713; Fri, 5 May 2017 10:21:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Wei Dai 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 Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 16:21:53 +0200 Message-ID: <7497469.TuTdfvjb2m@xps> In-Reply-To: <1493944802-52943-2-git-send-email-wei.dai@intel.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/3] ethdev: fix adding invalid MAC addr X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:21:55 -0000 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.