[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] ether: don't mark input multicast for deprecation

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

The number of received multicast frames is useful and already
available in many/most drivers. Therefore don't mark it as
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 1 -
 lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h    | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index 0b0bbcf..3b71c0c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -2715,7 +2715,6 @@ ixgbevf_dev_stats_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_stats *stats)
 	stats->opackets = hw_stats->vfgptc;
 	stats->obytes = hw_stats->vfgotc;
 	stats->imcasts = hw_stats->vfmprc;
-	/* stats->imcasts should be removed as imcasts is deprecated */
 }
 
 static void
diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
index 48a540d..f653e37 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -204,8 +204,7 @@ struct rte_eth_stats {
 	/**< Deprecated; Total of RX packets with bad length. */
 	uint64_t ierrors;   /**< Total number of erroneous received packets. */
 	uint64_t oerrors;   /**< Total number of failed transmitted packets. */
-	uint64_t imcasts;
-	/**< Deprecated; Total number of multicast received packets. */
+	uint64_t imcasts;   /**< Total number of multicast received packets. */
 	uint64_t rx_nombuf; /**< Total number of RX mbuf allocation failures. */
 	uint64_t fdirmatch;
 	/**< Deprecated; Total number of RX packets matching a filter. */
-- 
2.1.4