[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/3] ethdev: fix adding invalid MAC addr

[Thomas Monjalon]

05/05/2017 02:40, Wei Dai:
> Some customers find adding MAC addr to VF sometimes can fail,
> but it is still stored in dev->data->mac_addrs[ ]. So this
> can lead to some errors that assumes the non-zero entry in
> dev->data->mac_addrs[ ] is valid.
> Following acknowledgements are from specific NIC PMD
> maintainer for their managing part.
> 
> This patch changes the ethdev API, it should not be
> backported to a stable/LTS release so far.

It changes only the internal function pointer used by drivers,
not the API.