[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix dropping packets with Ethertype 0x88A8

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:09:43AM +0000, Wu, Jingjing wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xing, Beilei
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:58 AM
> > To: Wu, Jingjing
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Xing, Beilei
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix dropping packets with Ethertype 0x88A8
> > 
> > Refer to FW default setting, Ethertype 0x88A8 is treated as S-TAG, packects
> > with S-TAG should be received in Port Virtualizer mode, but Port Virtual
> > mode is not initialized in DPDK. So X710 will drop packets with Ethertype
> > 0x88A8.
> > This patch fixes this issue by turning off S-TAG identification.
> > 
> > Fixes: 4861cde46116 ("i40e: new poll mode driver")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
> 

Applied to dpdk-next-net/rel_16_11

/Bruce