From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1784A0547; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:53:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A052F40DF7; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:53:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A54C406A3 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:53:14 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10092"; a="304015891" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,366,1620716400"; d="scan'208";a="304015891" Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 31 Aug 2021 02:53:05 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,366,1620716400"; d="scan'208";a="531032595" Received: from unknown (HELO intel-npg-odc-srv03.cd.intel.com) ([10.240.178.145]) by fmsmga003-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 31 Aug 2021 02:53:01 -0700 From: Robin Zhang To: david.marchand@redhat.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, beilei.xing@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com, mdr@ashroe.eu, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, junfeng.guo@intel.com, stevex.yang@intel.com, ktraynor@redhat.com, robinx.zhang@intel.com Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:40:12 +0000 Message-Id: <20210831094012.727805-1-robinx.zhang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210830031215.557238-1-robinx.zhang@intel.com> References: <20210830031215.557238-1-robinx.zhang@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] net/i40e: remove i40evf X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" From: robinx.zhang@intel.com Hi David > -----Original Message----- > From: David Marchand > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2021 7:41 PM > To: Zhang, RobinX > Cc: dev ; Xing, Beilei ; Burakov, > Anatoly ; Wu, Jingjing > ; Ray Kinsella ; Zhang, Qi Z > ; Guo, Junfeng ; Yang, > SteveX ; Kevin Traynor > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] net/i40e: remove i40evf > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 5:25 AM Robin Zhang > wrote: > > > > In DPDK 21.05, iavf already became the default VF for i40e devices. > > So remove i40evf due to it's no need to maintain now. > > > > Robin Zhang (3): > > net/i40e: remove i40evf > > net/iavf: remove i40evf devargs option > > doc: remove old deprecation notice for i40e > > Release notes must be updated. Will update in v2 patch. > > Are you leaving the PF support for servicing i40evf devices on purpose? > Idem, driver-specific API wrt to VF is still present. I40evf driver is the old VF driver for i40e devices, now it's replaced by iavf driver. We still need the i40e PF support and driver-specific API work with iavf on i40e devices. > > > -- > David Marchand