[PATCH] ethdev: validate reserved fields

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 16:24:36 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com> wrote:

> No objection on validating reserved fields, but if any application
> passing not zero values before (I think this was possible), it will
> break with this change, so can we get this patch in this release?
> 
> Or should it need to wait ABI break release?
> If we will wait v23.11, perhaps this should be applied to all structs
> with reserved fields, and may be good to add a deprecation notice in
> this release, what do you t

Yes, do this in 23.11 (early in merge cycle).
Did ethdev because it is heavily used, and easy to test and validate.