On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:48:12 +0000 Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com> wrote:
> Several rte_eth_dev_* functions are currently only supported > by the ixgbe NIC driver. This patchset adds driver support > for some of these functions to the i40e, virtio, and vmxnet3 > drivers. It is good to make drivers more complete and compatible, but unless the virtual driver has some useful data I can't see the point of providing these functions in this case. The base infrastructure (rte_ethdev) should deal with by returning not supported error (or all zeros); rather than creating more code in other drivers for no real gain.
