Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: remove unused Rx error flags

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:39:33PM +0000, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 8:56 AM
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: johndale@cisco.com; Ananyev, Konstantin; Zhang, Helin; arnon@qwilt.com; rolette@infinite.io; Chen, Jing D; Wu, Jingjing
> > Subject: [PATCH] mbuf: remove unused Rx error flags
> > 
> > Following the discussions from:
> > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-July/021721.html
> > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/038143.html
> > 
> > The value of these flags is 0, making them useless. Today, no example
> > application checks them on Rx, and only few drivers sets them and
> > silently give wrong packets to the application, which should not happen.
> > 
> > This patch removes the unused flags from rte_mbuf and their use in the
> > drivers. The i40e and fm10k are kept as they are today and should be
> > fixed to drop bad packets. The enic driver is managed by its maintainer
> > in another patch.
> > 
> > Fixes: c22265f6 ("mbuf: add new packet flags for i40e")
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> > ---
> 
> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
> 
Applied to dpdk-next-net/rel_16_07

/Bruce