On Tue, 16 May 2023 00:35:56 +0100 Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@amd.com> wrote:
> Yes only some scripts and possible applications that hotplug tap > interface with hardcoded parameters may impacted, don't know how big is > this amount but this ends up breaking something that was working before > upgrading DPDK for them. > > And I believe the motivation is weak to break the behavior. > > Won't it be better to update 'rte_ether_unformat_addr()' to accept more > flexible syntax, and use it? Is there any disadvantage of this approach? It is already more flexible than the standard ether_aton().
