From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242132B84 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:45:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 Apr 2017 02:45:08 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.37,197,1488873600"; d="scan'208";a="1155859499" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.122]) ([10.237.220.122]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Apr 2017 02:45:05 -0700 To: Pascal Mazon , dev@dpdk.org References: From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:45:05 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] improve tap behavior 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, 14 Apr 2017 09:45:09 -0000 On 4/14/2017 10:32 AM, Pascal Mazon wrote: > The tap does not behave properly in some cases. > > It is generally expected that a real device should be available once the > probing has been done. > > It is also better to check if an operation (here, setting MAC) is > mandatory before performing it. Typically in cases where the remote > netdevice is a VF with limited capabilities. > > This series ensures that the tap works more logically. > > Pascal Mazon (5): > net/tap: add debug messages > net/tap: remove unnecessary functions > net/tap: drop unnecessary nested block > net/tap: create netdevice during probing > net/tap: do not set remote MAC if not necessary Thanks for the patches, they will be considered for 17.08