[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] Add missing ethdev driver support

[Remy Horton]

On 16/02/2016 18:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:48:12 +0000
> Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Several rte_eth_dev_* functions are currently only supported
>> by the ixgbe NIC driver. This patchset adds driver support
>> for some of these functions to the i40e, virtio, and vmxnet3
>> drivers.
>
> It is good to make drivers more complete and compatible, but unless
> the virtual driver has some useful data I can't see the point of providing
> these functions in this case. The base infrastructure (rte_ethdev) should
> deal with by returning not supported error (or all zeros); rather than
> creating more code in other drivers for no real gain.

Come to the same conclusion regarding the Rx/Tx queue info functions, as 
working out how to derive the figures I could return was also baking in 
some implicit assumptions. Plan to exclude those ones from the v2.

..Remy