Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] app/testpmd: remove port stop check for macsec

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 6/30/2019 10:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 27/06/2019 19:23, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 6/10/2019 7:07 AM, Wei Zhao wrote:
>>> There is no need to do such a check when set macsec for ixgbe, and
>>> reconfig_device_queueand is also useless. If we do not delete this
>>> unnessary code, users have to stop port before enable or disable
>>> macsec, then restart this port after make configuration. All these
>>> process are useless. As this cmdline is a private API which is only
>>> used by ixgbe NIC, so remove it.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 597f9fafe13b ("app/testpmd: convert to new Tx offloads API")
>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1@intel.com>
>>> Tested-by: Peng Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>
>>> Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
>>
>> Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
> 
> I disagree with the purpose of this patch.
> It is removing some "generic" code with the argument that it is
> not needed in the case of ixgbe, and ixgbe is the only user.
> We may (and probably will) have other PMDs using this command,
> so the argument is not OK.
> 
> I do not merge this patch in master for now.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

Dropped from the next-net based on nack