[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/19] Add advanced features for Huawei hinic pmd

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/25/2019 10:04 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 10/10/2019 16:51, Xiaoyun wang:
>> This patch set adds advanced features for Huawei hinic pmd,
>> such as VLAN filter and VLAN offload, SR-IOV, FW version get,
>> set link down and up, Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
> 
> If I understand well, this series is implementing some deprecated APIs
> (flow director, ethertype, ntuple filters).
> Please make sure all your features are supported with rte_flow API.
> The legacy filter API should be removed during 2020.
> 
As far as I can see hinic PMD uses rte_flow.

I already started another thread for discussion but what is really deprecated?
PMDs enabling filtering capabilities?

I think we should put those features back, I will send a patch to continue the
discussion on it.