Re: [PATCH 1/7] ether: don't mark input multicast for deprecation

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu,  5 Nov 2015 17:04:33 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> The number of received multicast frames is useful and already
> available in many/most drivers. Therefore don't mark it as
> deprecated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 1 -
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h    | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> index 0b0bbcf..3b71c0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> @@ -2715,7 +2715,6 @@ ixgbevf_dev_stats_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_stats *stats)
>  	stats->opackets = hw_stats->vfgptc;
>  	stats->obytes = hw_stats->vfgotc;
>  	stats->imcasts = hw_stats->vfmprc;
> -	/* stats->imcasts should be removed as imcasts is deprecated */
>  }
>  
>  static void
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> index 48a540d..f653e37 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> @@ -204,8 +204,7 @@ struct rte_eth_stats {
>  	/**< Deprecated; Total of RX packets with bad length. */
>  	uint64_t ierrors;   /**< Total number of erroneous received packets. */
>  	uint64_t oerrors;   /**< Total number of failed transmitted packets. */
> -	uint64_t imcasts;
> -	/**< Deprecated; Total number of multicast received packets. */
> +	uint64_t imcasts;   /**< Total number of multicast received packets. */
>  	uint64_t rx_nombuf; /**< Total number of RX mbuf allocation failures. */
>  	uint64_t fdirmatch;
>  	/**< Deprecated; Total number of RX packets matching a filter. */

I am okay with removing imcasts if all the drivers that support provide
the same information in xstats.