<div dir="ltr">Was there a consensus on if this should be re-drafted as a bug and fixes or left as a backportable feature/improvement? I am good either way, just wanted to clarify if I had an additional action at this time.<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:33 AM Olivier Matz <<a href="mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com">olivier.matz@6wind.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:<br>
> 04/04/2022 12:33, Kevin Traynor:<br>
> > On 04/04/2022 07:15, Morten Brørup wrote:<br>
> > >> From: Ben Magistro [mailto:<a href="mailto:koncept1@gmail.com" target="_blank">koncept1@gmail.com</a>]<br>
> > >> Sent: Monday, 4 April 2022 02.57<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Enable printing of the outer vlan if flags indicate it is present.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ben Magistro <<a href="mailto:koncept1@gmail.com" target="_blank">koncept1@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Acked-by: Olivier Matz <<a href="mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com" target="_blank">olivier.matz@6wind.com</a>><br>
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> > >><br>
> > >> ---<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> While troubleshooting some QinQ offloads with various Intel i40e<br>
> > >> firmware[1], it was<br>
> > >> helpful to expose the outer vlan in the dump mbuf calls. This should<br>
> > >> be straightforward<br>
> > >> to backport and happy to do the work if accepted. I understand that<br>
> > >> this may not be a<br>
> > >> widely supported capability at this time, so we are okay if this is not<br>
> > >> accepted and<br>
> > >> we just maintain a local patch.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Features are usually not backported, only bug fixes.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > However, since this patch proved helpful finding a bug, and it is very simple, it could be considered by the LTS maintainers.<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> > Suggest to tag the patch with 'Cc: <a href="mailto:stable@dpdk.org" target="_blank">stable@dpdk.org</a>' to indicate it is <br>
> > requested for stable branches. It will be caught by stable maintainer <br>
> > filters when it is time for backports and can be discussed further then.<br>
> <br>
> I think it is a bug.<br>
> What was introduced first? the function or the field?<br>
> Please find the commit where it should have been done<br>
> and mark it with "Fixes:" syntax + Cc:stable.<br>
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The vlan dump was introduced by commit 5b6eaea8ea7c ("mbuf: display more<br>
fields in dump"), but I don't think we can say it's a bug. To me, it is<br>
an enhancement that could be backported, because there is a benefit with<br>
a very low risk.<br>
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