[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] ethdev: document more retained across restart

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 1/8/19 5:52 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 12/19/2018 6:22 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
>> The patch series tries to improve documentation of what is retained
>> across default restart.
> Overall makes sense to add below items into retained list, only concern if is
> there any PMD conflicts with these information, they should either updated with
> this patch or at least notified about expectation change.

 From my point of view it is just clarification of the required behaviour.
MTU is required because of flag which may be used to advertise that
it is impossible to change in started state (otherwise the behaviour for
different PMDs will be absolutely different).
Default MAC is just cosmetics because of MAC address list is already
mentioned and the only goal is to highlight since these are different
features from the feature list point of view.
All-multicast is a part of Rx mode.

In fact I recall that net/bonding does not preserve all-multicast
(CC maintainers). If there is an agreement to fix it, I can take
a look - it should not be hard to fix.

In general I think that notification is sufficient in this case.

>> Andrew Rybchenko (3):
>>    ethdev: advertise MTU as retained across device stop/start
>>    ethdev: advertise default MAC as retained on device restart
>>    ethdev: highlight that all-multicast is retained on restart
>>
>>   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 6 ++++--
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>