>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of David Marchand >>> I am also for option 2 especially because of this. >>> A driver that refuses a packet for reason X (which is a limitation, or an >>> incorrect config or whatever that is not a transient condition) but gives >>> it back to the application is a bad driver.
>>Why? What.s wrong to leave it to the upper layer to decide what to >>do with the packets that can't be sent (by one reason or another)? >How does the upper layer know if this is a transient state or something that >can't be resolved? Via rte_errno, for example.
