Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] net/sfc: convert to the new offload API

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

On 1/18/2018 9:44 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> May be it is too late to suggest a new API functions to ethdev,
> but hopefully if the idea is accepted, it could be applied in the
> current release cycle since these functions are trivial.
> 
> I'm not sure that rte_ethdev_version.map is updated correctly
> since EXPERIMENTAL tag is present and I don't understand how it
> should be handled.
> 
> In general for the transition period from old offload API to the
> new one it would be useful to convert Tx offloads to/from txq_flags
> in rte_eth_dev_info_get() for default_txconf and
> rte_eth_tx_queue_info_get(). Unfortunately it was lost during
> new offload API patches review. However, it would require testing
> for all network PMDs and we decided to follow more conservative
> approach and kept code to fill in txq_flags which should be simply
> removed when txq_flags are removed.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.