I will restore the explicit rejection in v2.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM David Marchand <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sept 2026 at 18:21, Stephen Hemminger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:08:11 -0600
> > Mohammad Shuab Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Keegan Freyhof <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > Remove support for the VMDq feature from the driver: the multi-pool
> > > Rx-queue configuration path in bnxt_mq_rx_configure(), the VMDQ VLAN
> > > pool wiring in the L2 filter alloc path, and the max_vmdq_pools/
> > > vmdq_queue_num reporting in dev_info (now always reported as 0).
> > >
> > > Preserved two pieces of logic that live in the same
> > > function/switch statement but are not VMDq-pool-specific: the
> > > RTE_ETH_MQ_RX_RSS pools=rx_cosq_cnt case and the
> > > per-non-default-VNIC skip_filter_allocation guard in
> > > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(), both used by the plain multi-COS RSS path.
> > > Also kept the RTE_ETH_VMDQ_ACCEPT_HASH_UC/BROADCAST/MULTICAST ->
> > > l2_rx_mask flag mapping in rte_pmd_bnxt_set_vf_rxmode(): despite the
> > > name, those bits are the standard DPDK VF-rxmode API used regardless
> > > of hardware VMDq pool support, not a VMDq-pool-specific control.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Keegan Freyhof <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Mohammad Shuab Siddique <
> [email protected]>
> > > ---
> >
> > [PATCH] net/bnxt: remove VMDq support
> >
> > Warning: mq_mode validation is lost. Before, VMDq, DCB and DCB_RSS
> > modes hit the default case and returned -EINVAL. Now any mode other
> > than NONE or RSS silently configures a single pool and succeeds.
> > Reject every other mq_mode explicitly in bnxt_mq_rx_configure() or
> > dev_configure.
>
> mq_mode should be validated in ethdev now, in next-net.
> 93b017ff2ffa ("ethdev: check VMDq availability")
>
> Is there something missing?
>
> --
> David Marchand
>
>

-- 
Shuab

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