[PATCH v7 0/7] start cleanup of rte_flow_item_*

[Thomas Monjalon]

03/02/2023 17:48, Ferruh Yigit:
> There was a plan to have structures from lib/net/ at the beginning
> of corresponding flow item structures.
> Unfortunately this plan has not been followed up so far.
> This series is a step to make the most used items,
> compliant with the inheritance design explained above.
> The old API is kept in anonymous union for compatibility,
> but the code in drivers and apps is updated to use the new API.

This series looks good, let's merge.
It is only a first step.
We will need to continue using more lib/net/ structures in flow offloads.

A question to answer later after more thoughts,
what is the timeframe to remove old fields?
or do we prefer keeping old flow item fields forever?