[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: rename deprecated VLAN flags

[Olivier MATZ]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 05:42:55PM -0700, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 10/24/2017 9:09 AM, Olivier MATZ wrote:
> > 
> >>> But, since we are
> >>> close to the release, applying it early after the release could
> >>> also be considered.
> >>
> >> Is there any benefit to be in this release, one think I can think of is 17.11
> >> being LTS, is there any other?
> >>
> >> And what do you think doing in two steps,
> >> - in this release remove deprecated flags
> >> - in the beginning of the next release introduce the new flags
> > 
> > I think one good side effect of having only one patch is that
> > it doesn't break applications that were using an undocumented
> > behavior of a PMD (it just requires a rename).
> 
> Makes sense, overall patch looks good to me, only concern is again making ethdev
> layer update in rc2.
> 
> If there is no objection, and Thomas is also OK, lets get this into rc2.
> 
> Meanwhile patch requires update because of qede PMD update, would you mind
> sending a new version based on latest next-net?

Yes, I'm sending a v2.

In my opinion, it could go in rc2.