> -----Original Message----- > From: Xing, Beilei <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:32 PM > To: Zhang, RobinX <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: 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, Qi Z <[email protected]>; Yigit, > Ferruh <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd > > > > > -----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]>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel. Thanks Qi
