[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] ethdev: add enum type and relevant structures for hash filter control

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Nov 12 10:30:39 CET 2014


2014-11-12 05:52, Zhang, Helin:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> > Actually you use ETH_FLOW_TYPE_IPV4 for ixgbe and
> > ETH_FLOW_TYPE_FRAG_IPV4 or ETH_FLOW_TYPE_NONFRAG_IPV4_* for i40e.
> > It's not consistent and clearly shows that you stick to the hardware definitions.
> > 
> > Something really generic could be a set of flags like this:
> > 	IPV4
> > 	IPV6
> > 	NONFRAG
> > 	UDP
> > 	TCP
> > 	SCTP
> 
> Good conclusion! We could think of it in a new patch set.
> I don't want to put everything into this patch. :)

If you agree flags must be used, the old defines must be removed.
So no need to rename the defines.
I think you should directly change to flags (in this patchset or another).

Thanks
-- 
Thomas


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