On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 10:59, David Marchand <[email protected]> wrote: > > The MAC address removal was checking if the hardware supports VMDq > (I40E_FLAG_VMDQ) to decide whether to use pool-based removal. > However, ethdev only populates mac_pool_sel[] when VMDq mode is actually > configured. As a result, when VMDq is supported but not configured, > mac_pool_sel is 0 and no MAC address gets removed. > > Fix by checking if VMDq mode is configured, matching the condition > used by ethdev to manage mac_pool_sel[]. > > Bugzilla ID: 2074 > Fixes: 774365884bb8 ("net/i40e: fix MAC address removal") > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <[email protected]>
AI review raises a concern that dev_conf is the requested configuration and proposes to rely on mac_pool_sel[index] == 0. This should be safe since i40e max mac_addrs count is 64 but maybe worth adding a build check here. Bruce, wdyt? -- David Marchand
