> On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:10:03 +0800
> Chaoyong He <chaoyong...@corigine.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Long Wu <long...@corigine.com>
> >
> > The command of setting VLAN filter IDs can only set one VLAN filter ID
> > at once. For example:
> > testpmd> rx_vlan add 100 0
> >
> > This is very inefficient in some case because it forces the user type
> > this command as many times as the VLAN filter IDs they want to set.
> >
> > This patch supports the user set any number valid VLAN filter IDs just
> > through one command and it is also backwards compatible.
> > For example:
> > testpmd> rx_vlan add 100,102-103,200 0
> > The VLAN filter IDs 100, 102, 103, 200 will be added to port 0.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Long Wu <long...@corigine.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong...@corigine.com>
> 
> Not sure if this is really worth the effort.
> Testpmd is intended to exercise drivers, not as a production forwarding
> application though users have tendency to be lazy and use it for that.
> 
> If consensus is to implement this, then DPDK should really have a way to parse
> a range of values (already needed for cores). Then the library code could be
> used here, rather than special parsing code only for VLAN's in testpmd.

Okay, we can wait for this one.

Then how about the 2/3 and 3/3 patch?
Which are add a 'show' command for the VLAN filter IDs and I think they can 
split from this one.

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