2016-11-10 13:50, Mori, Naoyuki: > Hi, > > > Thomas wrote: > > > Just to make it sure, you mean returning an error in the driver when > > > a configuration cannot be applied, right? > > > > Yes, as in 1bbcc5d21129 ("i40evf: report error for unsupported CRC > > stripping config"), where -EINVAL is returned. > > > > Bj?rn > > On my experience, OvS+DPDK has same issue. > You cannot run OvS on i40evf due to this CRC config mismatch, while OvS on > ixgbevf works fine. > So, changing on i40evf PMD side would have more benefit, I believe.
No I think OVS should handle the configuration error. We could also add a function to query this capability before configuring.