[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Apr 16 15:36:09 CEST 2021


On 4/16/2021 11:15 AM, Zhang, Qi Z wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Robin Zhang
>> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 9:58 AM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>; Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>; Wang,
>> Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>; mdr at ashroe.eu; nhorman at tuxdriver.com;
>> Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Yang, Qiming
>> <qiming.yang at intel.com>; Yang, SteveX <stevex.yang at intel.com>; Zhang,
>> RobinX <robinx.zhang at intel.com>
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd
>>
>> The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for Intel 700
>> serial (i40e) NIC family. To reach this, there will be 2 steps:
>>
>> Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be selected by
>> devarg: "driver=i40evf".
>> This is covered by this patch, which include:
>> 1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD
>> 2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf
>> 3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf
>>
>> Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at DPDK
>> 21.11
>>
>> Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf except
>> bug fix.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zhang at intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> 

Hi Qi, Robin,

Lgtm, hence:
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

But we need 3 acks for a deprecation notice to merge it.


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