[PATCH v2] doc: fix support table for ETH and VLAN flow items
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Oct 26 17:34:29 CEST 2022
13/10/2022 12:48, Ilya Maximets:
> 'has_vlan' attribute is only supported by sfc, mlx5 and cnxk.
> Other drivers doesn't support it. Most of them (like i40e) just
> ignore it silently. Some drivers (like mlx4) never had a full
> support of the eth item even before introduction of 'has_vlan'
> (mlx4 allows to match on the destination MAC only).
>
> Same for the 'has_more_vlan' flag of the vlan item.
>
> 'has_vlan' is part of 'rte_flow_item_eth', so changing 'eth'
> field to 'partial support' in documentation for all such drivers.
> 'has_more_vlan' is part of 'rte_flow_item_vlan', so changing
> 'vlan' to 'partial support' as well.
>
> This doesn't solve the issue, but at least marks the problematic
> drivers.
>
> Some details are available in:
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958
>
> Fixes: 09315fc83861 ("ethdev: add VLAN attributes to ethernet and VLAN items")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org>
Applied, thanks.
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