[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] lib/librte_ether: add support for port reset

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Mon Apr 24 04:01:20 CEST 2017


On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:28:37AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Maybe I should add some words in doc\guides\nics\i40e.rst to Record which
> > configurations are  saved  and restored by the PMD driver in reset
> > function. Which not list in that are recognized as not saved  and restored 
> > by default. OTHER  NIC for this feature can add similar record in their
> > xxx.rst.
> 
> No, when defining a generic API in ethdev, we must define the same
> behaviour for every drivers.

Agreed. That was my point.

	--yliu

> Please check how to make the behaviour consistent and documented
> in ethdev. We may need to document your new function and start/stop also.


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