Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/9] ethdev: add switch identifier parameter to port

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 4/26/2018 11:40 AM, Declan Doherty wrote:
> Introduces a new port attribute to ethdev port's which denotes the
> switch domain a port belongs to. By default all port's switch
> identifiers are set to RTE_ETH_DEV_SWITCH_DOMAIN_ID_INVALID. Ports
> which supported the concept of switch domains can be configured with
> the same switch domain id.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
> ---
>  app/test-pmd/config.c         | 12 ++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Patch updated in next-net to remove deprecation notice:

  diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
 index fd85a141b..c3b79a22f 100644
  --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
  +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
 @@ -59,12 +59,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
     PMDs have switched to rte_flow.

  -* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port representors
  -  as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the different VFs.
  -  As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in order to map
  -  between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
  -  are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
  -
   * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
     bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
     required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow