2016-06-08 08:37, Ananyev, Konstantin: > > From: Ananyev, Konstantin > > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Wenzhuo Lu > > > > Add a new example to show when the PF is down and up, VF port can be > > > > reset and recover. > > > > > > Do we really need a totally new example for it? > > > Can't we put it in one of already existing ones? > > > Let say we have l3fwd-vf... wouldn't that suit your needs? > > > Konstantin > > I thought about just modifying an existing example. But I choose to add a > > new one at last. The benefit of a totally new example is we > > can make it simple enough and focus on the reset function. > > So it's easier for the users to find what we want to show. And it's also > > easier for us as we don't need to care about if our modification > > will break some function of the original example :) > > I still think that adding a new example for esch new feature/function in > rte_ethdev API iw way too expensive. > If your change is not good enough and will break original example, then you > probably re-work your feature patch > to make it stable enough. > After all people will use it in their existing apps, not write the new ones > right? > BTW, why not make it work with testpmd? > After all it is a new PMD api, an that's for we have our testpmd here?
+1 for testpmd
