> -----Original Message----- > From: Zhang, RobinX <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 11:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Xing, Beilei <[email protected]>; Guo, Jia <[email protected]>; Wang, > Haiyue <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; > Wu, Jingjing <[email protected]>; Yang, Qiming > <[email protected]>; Yang, SteveX <[email protected]>; Zhang, > RobinX <[email protected]>; Zhang, Qi Z <[email protected]>; Yigit, > Ferruh <[email protected]> > Subject: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd > > The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for Intel > 700 > serial (i40e) NIC family. To reach this, there will be 2 steps: > > Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be > selected by > devarg: "driver=i40evf". > This is covered by this patch, which include: > 1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD > 2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf > 3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf > > Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at DPDK > 21.11 > > Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf except > bug fix. > > Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Qi Zhang <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Beilei Xing <[email protected]>
