On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 5:24 PM Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> wrote: > > This patch updates OVS to use DPDK RTE_ETH namespaces. > > DPDK commit 295968d17407 ("ethdev: add namespace") [0] added RTE_ETH > namespaces for ethdev enums and macros in DPDK 21.11. > > As compatibility for the older names was kept and they were not officially > deprecated in DPDK 21.11, there was no impact to OVS and OVS did not have > to be updated. > > In future DPDK releases the older names will be deprecated and that will > cause build warnings for OVS. They may also be removed from DPDK at some > point. > > There is no immediate need to update OVS to use the new namespaces while > DPDK 21.11 is being used but at the same time there is no need to wait > until it becomes an issue either. So might as well align with the > updated names in DPDK 21.11.
+1 > > [0] > http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=295968d1740760337e16b0d7914875c5cac52850 > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> > > --- > > N.B. This is not required for 2.17, the existing defines work fine. LGTM, thanks Kevin. Acked-by: David Marchand <[email protected]> -- David Marchand _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
