[dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/14] link status API improvement and bugfixes

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Jan 5 15:29:09 CET 2018


14/07/2017 20:30, Stephen Hemminger:
> While writing new driver, I noticed a lot of unnecessary duplication of
> code in drivers for handling the eth_dev link status information. While
> consolidating this, it also became obvious that several drivers have
> bugs in this are because they don't return the correct value.
> Also, some drivers were not fully initializing all the space (including
> padding).

Good initiative.
Please, could you spin a new version not RFC?

> This is compile test only at this point, I don't have any of the hardware
> available (except virtio) to test.

I think we should integrate it in 18.02-rc1 so everybody will be forced
to test it.



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