> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2025 8:25 PM
> To: Richardson, Bruce <[email protected]>; Burakov, Anatoly
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Sunil Kumar Kori <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/ice: set pkt prepare to dummy instead of NULL
>
> From: Sunil Kumar Kori <[email protected]>
>
> As per recent change by the following commit:
>
> commit 066f3d9cc21c ("ethdev: remove callback checks from fast path")
>
> framework unconditionally invokes dev->tx_pkt_prepare.
> Due to this, ICE driver gets crashed as tx_pkt_prepare was set to NULL during
> initialization.
>
> Ensure dev->tx_pkt_prepare is not NULL when vector or simple TX paths are
> selected, by assigning rte_eth_tx_pkt_prepare_dummy.
>
> This aligns with expectations with above mentioned commit.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 1795
>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Kumar Kori <[email protected]>
> ---
Tested-by: Xu, HailinX <[email protected]>
