[dpdk-dev] missing __rte_deprecated on rte_eth_stats.imcasts ?

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Mon Nov 23 01:20:48 CET 2015


2015-11-22 18:53, Matthew Hall:
> I was reading through the deprecations in rte_eth_stats to see if I could fix 
> the pktgen. Of course many fields were marked with __rte_deprecated .
> 
> However I found this one field which said deprecated in its comment, but it 
> lacked __rte_deprecated .

When setting the __rte_deprecated attribute, Stephen wanted to keep imcasts:
http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/8732/

> Is the comment wrong, or is the field definition wrong, or did I miss 
> something?

We have to decide if we really want to deprecate it.
I think we should set the deprecated attribute and it seems agreed.

> uint64_t imcasts;
> /**< Deprecated; Total number of multicast received packets. */



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