[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] net/iavf: support multicast configuration

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 10:53 +0800, Qi Zhang wrote:
> [ upstream commit 05e4c3aff35f41d527acfab86df55477fd8dcff2 ]
> 
> This patch enable add multicast address for iavf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1 at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> ---
> 
> To maintainer:
> 
> I know this is not a fix, but this is requested by an important
> customer that will use DPDK 19.11 LTS, meanwhile this patch just add a missing
> eth_dev op in AVF, it has low risk to bring any side effect.
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/features/iavf.ini |  1 +
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf.h           |  7 ++++
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c    | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c     | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 107 insertions(+)

Next time please follow the guidelines and use --subject-prefix='PATCH
19.11' when sending, otherwise the mail gets filtered out.

What happens if someone upgrades from 19.11.6 with this patch, to say
20.08 which doesn't have it? Are there hard errors, or will the feature
simply be ignored?

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi