> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 5:24 PM Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This patch updates OVS to use DPDK RTE_ETH namespaces. > > > > DPDK commit 295968d17407 ("ethdev: add namespace") [0] added RTE_ETH > > namespaces for ethdev enums and macros in DPDK 21.11. > > > > As compatibility for the older names was kept and they were not officially > > deprecated in DPDK 21.11, there was no impact to OVS and OVS did not have > > to be updated. > > > > In future DPDK releases the older names will be deprecated and that will > > cause build warnings for OVS. They may also be removed from DPDK at some > > point. > > > > There is no immediate need to update OVS to use the new namespaces while > > DPDK 21.11 is being used but at the same time there is no need to wait > > until it becomes an issue either. So might as well align with the > > updated names in DPDK 21.11.
Thanks Kevin, LGTM so applied and pushed to master. Do you think this should be applied to 2.17 also? As it uses 21.11. I'm just wondering will it make back porting any fixes on master to 2.17 easier in the future also. Thoughts? Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
