> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2021 6:12 AM
> To: Guo, Jia <jia....@intel.com>
> Cc: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing
> <jingjing...@intel.com>; Yang, Qiming <qiming.y...@intel.com>; Wang,
> Haiyue <haiyue.w...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Yigit, Ferruh
> <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; andrew.rybche...@oktetlabs.ru
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-dev v2 1/2] ethdev: add new tunnel type for
> ecpri
>
> 24/12/2020 07:59, Jeff Guo:
> > Add type of RTE_TUNNEL_TYPE_ECPRI into the enum of ethdev tunnel
> type.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia....@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
> [...]
> > --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > @@ -1219,6 +1219,7 @@ enum rte_eth_tunnel_type {
> > RTE_TUNNEL_TYPE_IP_IN_GRE,
> > RTE_L2_TUNNEL_TYPE_E_TAG,
> > RTE_TUNNEL_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE,
> > + RTE_TUNNEL_TYPE_ECPRI,
> > RTE_TUNNEL_TYPE_MAX,
> > };
>
> We tried to remove all these legacy API in DPDK 20.11.
> Andrew decided to not remove this one because it is not yet completely
> replaced by rte_flow in all drivers.
> However, I am against continuing to update this API.
> The opposite work should be done: migrate to rte_flow.
>
Agree but seems that the legacy api and driver legacy implementation still keep
in this release, and there is no a general way to replace the legacy by
rte_flow right now.
> Sorry, it is a nack.
> BTW, it is probably breaking the ABI because of RTE_TUNNEL_TYPE_MAX.
>
Oh, the ABI break should be a problem.
> PS: please Cc ethdev maintainers for such patch, thanks.
> tip: use --cc-cmd devtools/get-maintainer.sh
>
Thanks for your helpful tip.
