[PATCH] Intel iavf: Return in the case of ADD/DEL ETH address

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:19:23 +0000
Vipin P R <vipinp at vmware.com> wrote:

> In case of i40vf, VIRTCHNL_OP_DEL_ETH_ADDR and VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_ETH_ADDR are unsupported.
> i40evf_execute_vf_cmd is invoked with these operations as part of i40evf_set_mc_addr_list()
> 
> The cases are not handled in i40evf_execute_vf_cmd() thus hitting the default case.
> There is a retry logic of upto 200 times (2000 in iavf) with a delay of 10ms (1ms in iavf).
> This results in a needless delay of 2s in the init phase for each VNIC.
> 
> The patch aims to rectify that delay.
> In fe2a571c70cc397f2ad4e280f8d084148fea5d62, i40e_ethdev_vf.c was deleted. Hence adding this in iavf_vchnl.c.
> 
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vipin P R <vipinp at vmware.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Please run checkpatch, the DPDK style is to indent with tabs not spaces.