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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:28:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] promiscuous mode enable on
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:08 AM Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1@intel.com> wrote:

> There is need to enable promiscuous mode enable on VF,
> pf host should also enable to support that.
>
> Zhao Wei (3):
>   net/ixgbe: promiscuous mode enable on VF
>   net/ixgbe: enable promiscous mode on PF host
>   net/ixgbe: update API version
>
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 21 +++++++++++
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h |  1 +
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_pf.c     | 79
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.5
>

This series looks more about a missing feature than a proper fix.
We have a new pf/vf api supported in this series and a new behaviour for
promiscuous.
This is not stable material to me unless you expose a clear problem that
this series wants to address.


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David Marchand