05/05/2017 02:40, Wei Dai: > Some customers find adding MAC addr to VF sometimes can fail, > but it is still stored in dev->data->mac_addrs[ ]. So this > can lead to some errors that assumes the non-zero entry in > dev->data->mac_addrs[ ] is valid. > Following acknowledgements are from specific NIC PMD > maintainer for their managing part. > > This patch changes the ethdev API, it should not be > backported to a stable/LTS release so far.
It changes only the internal function pointer used by drivers, not the API.