[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS remove experimental tag from vdev_netvsc

[Thomas Monjalon]

15/09/2020 16:47, Stephen Hemminger:
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 9/15/2020 3:03 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Vdev_netvsc has been around for several years. It no longer needs
> > > to be marked experimental.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > > ---
> > > -Microsoft vdev_netvsc - EXPERIMENTAL
> > > +Microsoft vdev_netvsc
> > >  M: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> > >  F: drivers/net/vdev_netvsc/
> > >  F: doc/guides/nics/vdev_netvsc.rst
> > 
> > As far as I remember 'vdev_netvsc' was interim solution until 'netvsc'
> > was ready. In this patchset 'netvsc' is also becoming mature.
> > 
> > Wouldn't be easier to keep 'vdev_netvsc' experimental to be able to
> > remove it soon?
> 
> Let me discuss with Long Li and management.
> Maybe replace EXPERIMENTAL with DEPRECATED in 20.11.

Would be strange to switch from experimental to deprecated :)

+Cc Matan

I think you still need this platform driver (with failsafe and tap)
in case you need rte_flow. Or is it well supported with netvsc PMD?