[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: introduce MACSEC device ops

[Thomas Monjalon]

12/04/2019 10:50, Igor Russkikh:
> 
> >>> Please can you explain how it is related to rte_security?
> >>
> >> It is not.
> >> Do you mean macsec control API could be moved and logically be a part of rte_security api?
> >> I can't comment now on how feasible is this. Moreover this depends on how Intel considers
> >> and uses the existing macsec offload in ixgbe.
> > 
> > There are RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MACSEC and rte_security_macsec_* structs
> > in librte_security.
> > Please check how it can be used while defining an ethdev API.
> 
> There is nothing in rte_security defined explicitly for macsec except that enum item.
> All the macsec structures are dummy. Was there any intent to implement this?
> 
> I can writeup the generic macsec structures for rte_security, do you think that's feasible?

I don't know. We are in front of a case of dead code
written well too far in advance.
Akhil, any suggestion?