[PATCH] net/ixgbe: avoid private driver include in testpmd

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Oct 15 13:50:26 CEST 2026


15/10/2026 13:21, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 10/15/2026 1:18 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 at 12:41, Burakov, Anatoly
> > <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/15/2026 11:13 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>> 15/10/2026 10:53, Burakov, Anatoly:
> >>>> On 10/14/2026 10:34 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>>>> Testpmd commands should use the driver's public API
> >>>>> rather than access its private structures directly.
> >>>>> Note: ixgbe_testpmd.c should be considered as part of testpmd.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ixgbe_testpmd.c includes ixgbe_ethdev.h only to check whether bypass
> >>>>> operations are available through the private adapter structure.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rely on the public bypass API to check availability
> >>>>> and handle -ENOTSUP in the commands.
> >>>>> Remove ixgbe_ethdev.h, ethdev_driver.h
> >>>>> and the now unnecessary RTE_LIBRTE_IXGBE_BYPASS definition.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> I forgot to say it is mostly written by AI.
> >>> I didn't review it myself.
> >>> Please double check.
> >>
> >> It doesn't look wrong to me, testpmd code should not be using
> >> driver-internal things anyway except through pmd-specific API, which is
> >> what this patch does.
> > 
> > On the principle, this looks good indeed.
> > 
> > My fault for just moving the code around, without considering the used APIs.
> > And there are probably similar issues in some other drivers _testpmd.c
> > files (at least net/ice seems to include ice_ethdev.h).
> 
> My guess is this doesn't blow up on ice because it is not using the 
> graph helper yet. I'll see about fixing our other drivers.

Please could you make it as a v2 of this series?




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