[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/14] ethdev: remove legacy filter API

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/22/2020 10:42 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> Removal is aggressive and tries to cleanup all dead code from drivers.
> 
> tep_termination example still uses TUNNEL filters. Functionality is
> broken when TUNNEL filter is removed and finally even build of the
> example is broken when API is removed. It is assumed that the example
> will be removed before the patch series applied.
> 
> v2:
>    - cleanup testpmd user guide
>    - try to improve descriptions a bit
>    - remove example/tep_termination mentions from patches
>      description
>    - fix broken build because of unused static function left
>    - other chagnes are documented in specific patches
> 
> Andrew Rybchenko (14):
>    ethdev: remove legacy MACVLAN filter type support
>    ethdev: move MAC filter type to i40e driver
>    ethdev: remove legacy EtherType filter type support
>    ethdev: remove legacy flexible filter type support
>    ethdev: move flexible filter type to e1000 driver
>    ethdev: remove legacy SYN filter type support
>    ethdev: remove legacy N-tuple filter type support
>    ethdev: remove legacy TUNNEL filter type support
>    ethdev: remove legacy HASH filter type support
>    ethdev: remove legacy L2_TUNNEL filter type support
>    ethdev: remove legacy global filter configuration support
>    ethdev: remove legacy FDIR filter type support
>    app/testpmd: remove command to set FDIR flexible filter mask
>    ethdev: remove legacy filter API functions
> 

For series,
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>


There is a dependency to tep_termination sample removal [1], after it is merged 
into main repo, I will proceed with this set.


[1]
https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/81654/