> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 3:11 PM
> To: Lu, Wenzhuo
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/librte_ether: bypass code cleanup
>
> 2016-07-11 14:21, Wenzhuo Lu:
> > In testpmd code, device id is used directly to check if bypass is
> > supported. But APP should not know the details of HW, the NIC specific
> > info should not be exposed here.
>
> Right
>
> > This patch adds a new rte API to check if bypass is supported.
>
> Hmmm. It's true it is cleaner. But I am not sure having a generic API for
> bypass is
> a good idea at all.
> I was thinking to totally remove it.
> Maybe we can try to have a specific API by including ixgbe_bypass.h in the
> application.
According to Jingjing's comments, I think we need not check if bypass is
supported. Every API will return fail if it's not supported. I'll send a V2 to
remove the bypass_is_supported.
