On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:42:04 +0200
David Marchand <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since the commit 88ac4396ad29 ("ethdev: add VMDq support"),
> VMDq has been imposing a maximum number of mac addresses in the
> mac_addr_add/del API.
>
> Nowadays, new Intel drivers do not support the feature and few other
> drivers implement this feature.
>
> This series enforces that the driver announces VMDq pools before
> using VMDq related features, then remove the limit of number of
> mac addresses for others.
>
> Next step could be to remove the VMDq pool notion from the generic API.
> However I have some concern about this, as changing the quite stable
> mac_addr_add/del API now seems a lot of noise for not much benefit.
>
Applied to next-net
