[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: remove unused Rx error flags

[Ananyev, Konstantin]

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