[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix applications failure on configure

[Thomas Monjalon]

02/05/2018 11:58, Xueming(Steven) Li:
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > Or as Xueming suggested, we can take rss_hf config as best effort and not return error at all.
> > 
> > I think this forces PMDs to have up-to-date flow_type_rss_offloads values, is there any other benefit?
> > What was the initial motivation to add error return on this check?
> 
> The original idea is to add rss_hf check on mlx5 PMD, while it looks more generic
> to move the check to ethdev api from discussion[1].
> 
> [1] http://www.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/095136.html

I think it is not correct to not return an error when the app
request an offload which is not supported.

Do we agree to work on PMDs and applications to fix this offload compliance?
And submit a deprecation notice to return an error in a later release?