[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/e1000: fix filter control return value

[Xiaozhen Ban]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xiaozhen Ban <benhaz1024 at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 19:44
> > To: Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; stable at dpdk.org
> > Subject: RE: RE: [PATCH] net/e1000: fix filter control return value
> > 
> > OK, but I think this bug affects all stable release about 6 years before today.

> I don't think so, since it is PMD internal ops, the real API 'rte_flow_ops_get'
> always use RTE_ETH_FILTER_GENERIC. ;-)

eth_igb_filter_ctrl() called by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl(), if application
developer know how to use the parameter filter_type correctly, it's OK. 
otherwise he will get rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl() return value is success
but actually is failed.