[PATCH v2] net/i40e: don't check link status on device start

[David Marchand]

Hi i40e maintainers,

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 10:19 AM David Marchand
<david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The mentioned changes broke existing applications when the link status
> of i40e ports is down at the time the port is started.
> Revert those changes, the original issue will need a different fix.
>
> Fixes: a4ba77367923 ("net/i40e: enable maximum frame size at port level")
> Fixes: 2184f7cdeeaa ("net/i40e: fix max frame size config at port level")
> Fixes: 719469f13b11 ("net/i40e: fix jumbo frame Rx with X722")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

This issue was reported only by our QE, but I suspect that real
deployments will get affected.
Please review.

Thanks.


-- 
David Marchand