[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/20] cleanup ethdev close operation

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 9/13/2020 11:06 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> This is the end of a process started two years ago,
> to have a close which reliably releases an ethdev port
> without the need of removing the device (which can have more ports).
> 
> Unfortunately, some drivers might be broken because did not follow
> the migration recommendations. We cannot wait more,
> this should be merged before the 20.11-rc1 release.
> 
> 
> Steve Yang (1):
>    net/iavf: release port upon close
> 
> Thomas Monjalon (18):
>    ethdev: reset device and interrupt pointers on release
>    ethdev: allow drivers to return error on close
>    net/af_packet: release port upon close
>    net/atlantic: release port upon close
>    net/axgbe: release port upon close
>    net/bonding: release port upon close
>    net/failsafe: release port upon close
>    net/mlx4: release port upon close
>    net/null: release port upon close
>    net/octeontx: release port upon close
>    net/pcap: release port upon close
>    net/ring: release port upon close
>    net/softnic: release port upon close
>    ethdev: remove old close behaviour
>    drivers/net: accept removing device without any port
>    drivers/net: remove redundant MAC addresses freeing
>    app/testpmd: reset port status on close notification
>    app/testpmd: align behaviour of multi-port detach
> 
> Yunjian Wang (1):
>    net/tap: release port upon close
> 

Hi Thomas,

this requires rebase, specially cxgbe & enic has relevant code changes 
after the set.