know more about the LLDP agent

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/28/2022 8:59 AM, xing zhang wrote:
> Dear:
>      I am writting to want to know more about the below two patches.
> 
>      I see the first patch that stopping the LLDP agent is to avoid 
> diagnostic:  default dcb config fails. err = -53, aq_err = 1. So stop 
> the LLDP agent before we attempt to call i40e_set_dcb_config.
> 
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=044846f071cc5ca78165360f5788036d09758820 
> <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=044846f071cc5ca78165360f5788036d09758820>
> 
>      But, the latest patch stop LLDP agent after we attempt to call 
> i40e_set_dcb_config.
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=b1eca6cc8573d162462f240641e43c88255f54a6 
> <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=b1eca6cc8573d162462f240641e43c88255f54a6> 
> 
> 
>      I think there is a contradiction between the two patches. So what 
> is the role of stop lldp agent? If I delete it, what will be the impact?
> 
> Look forward to your reply.
> 

Hi Xing,

I don't have the answer. Cc'ing Qi and i40e maintainers who can answer 
better.