On 10/25/2019 10:04 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 10/10/2019 16:51, Xiaoyun wang: >> This patch set adds advanced features for Huawei hinic pmd, >> such as VLAN filter and VLAN offload, SR-IOV, FW version get, >> set link down and up, Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on. > > If I understand well, this series is implementing some deprecated APIs > (flow director, ethertype, ntuple filters). > Please make sure all your features are supported with rte_flow API. > The legacy filter API should be removed during 2020. > As far as I can see hinic PMD uses rte_flow.
I already started another thread for discussion but what is really deprecated? PMDs enabling filtering capabilities? I think we should put those features back, I will send a patch to continue the discussion on it.
