Marvell QLogic bnx2x PMD support status
Morten Brørup
mb at smartsharesystems.com
Sun Feb 26 10:21:08 CET 2023
Marvell bnx2x PMD maintainers are silent. Is the PMD not maintained anymore?
> From: Morten Brørup [mailto:mb at smartsharesystems.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2023 17.50
> To: dev at dpdk.org; rmody at marvell.com; [...]
> Cc: shshaikh at marvell.com; [...]
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v7 1/4] net/bnx2x: fix warnings about rte_memcpy
> lengths
>
> PING bnx2x maintainers. Care to review this bugfix, so it can be
> included in 23.03?
>
> > From: Morten Brørup [mailto:mb at smartsharesystems.com]
> > Sent: Monday, 16 January 2023 14.07
> >
> > Bugfix: The vlan in the bulletin does not contain a VLAN header, only
> > the
> > VLAN ID, so only copy 2 byte, not 4. The target structure has padding
> > after the field, so copying 2 byte too many is effectively harmless.
> > There is no need to backport this patch.
> >
> > Use RTE_PTR_ADD where copying arrays to the offset of a first field in
> > a
> > structure holding multiple fields, to avoid compiler warnings with
> > decorated rte_memcpy.
> >
> > Bugzilla ID: 1146
> >
> > Fixes: 540a211084a7695a1c7bc43068934c140d6989be ("bnx2x: driver core")
> > Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org
> > Cc: rmody at marvell.com
> > Cc: shshaikh at marvell.com
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
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