Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] ionic: warn if RTE tries to enable loopback mode

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 11/2/2020 6:35 PM, Andrew Boyer wrote:

The ionic FW does not support loopback mode at this time.

"RTE tries to enable"? what about,
net/ionic: warn if loopback mode is requested

Signed-off-by: Andrew Boyer <abo...@pensando.io>
---
  drivers/net/ionic/ionic_ethdev.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_ethdev.c
index 600333e20..ff5c2e51a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ionic/ionic_ethdev.c
@@ -919,6 +919,9 @@ ionic_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
                return -EINVAL;
        }

+ if (dev_conf->lpbk_mode)

+               IONIC_PRINT(WARNING, "Loopback mode not supported");
+
        err = ionic_lif_start(lif);
        if (err) {
                IONIC_PRINT(ERR, "Cannot start LIF: %d", err);