[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/6] net: advertise no support for keeping flow rules

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 10/21/21 9:35 AM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> When RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP capability bit is zero,
> the specified behavior is the same as it had been before
> this bit was introduced. Explicitly reset it in all PMDs
> supporting rte_flow API in order to attract the attention
> of maintainers, who should eventually choose to advertise
> the new capability or not. It is already known that
> mlx4 and mlx5 will not support this capability.
> 
> For RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_SHARED_OBJECT_KEEP
> similar action is not performed,
> because no PMD except mlx5 supports indirect actions.
> Any PMD that starts doing so will anyway have to consider
> all relevant API, including this capability.
> 
> Suggested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at nvidia.com>

I'm sorry, but I still think that the patch is confusing.
No strong opinion, but personally I'd go without it.