[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: introduce MACSEC device ops

[Thomas Monjalon]

11/04/2019 14:37, Igor Russkikh:
> On 10.04.2019 14:46, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 10/04/2019 13:18, Igor Russkikh:
> >> MACSEC related device ops, API and parameters are taken from the
> >> existing ixgbe PMD ops
> > 
> > Please can you explain how it is related to rte_security?
> 
> It is not.
> Do you mean macsec control API could be moved and logically be a part of rte_security api?
> I can't comment now on how feasible is this. Moreover this depends on how Intel considers
> and uses the existing macsec offload in ixgbe.

There are RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MACSEC and rte_security_macsec_* structs
in librte_security.
Please check how it can be used while defining an ethdev API.