Hi Olivier, > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz at 6wind.com] > > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 8:56 AM > > To: dev at dpdk.org > > Cc: johndale at cisco.com; Ananyev, Konstantin; Zhang, Helin; arnon at > > qwilt.com; rolette at infinite.io; Chen, Jing D; Wu, Jingjing > > Subject: [PATCH] mbuf: remove unused Rx error flags > > > > Following the discussions from: > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-July/021721.html > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/038143.html > > > > The value of these flags is 0, making them useless. Today, no example > > application checks them on Rx, and only few drivers sets them and > > silently give wrong packets to the application, which should not happen. > > > > This patch removes the unused flags from rte_mbuf and their use in the > > drivers. The i40e and fm10k are kept as they are today and should be > > fixed to drop bad packets. The enic driver is managed by its maintainer > > in another patch. > > > > Fixes: c22265f6 ("mbuf: add new packet flags for i40e") > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> > > --- > > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
Just a note, I think you'll need to rebase your patch with latest code. enic PMD fails to compile. Please feel free to keep my ack on it. Konstantin
