Ivan Malov 5da44faa80 ethdev: deprecate hard-to-use or ambiguous items and actions
PF, VF and PHY_PORT require that applications have extra
knowledge of the underlying NIC and thus are hard to use.
Also, the corresponding items depend on the direction
attribute (ingress / egress), which complicates their
use in applications and interpretation in PMDs.

The concept of PORT_ID is ambiguous as it doesn't say whether
the port in question is an ethdev or the represented entity.

Items and actions PORT_REPRESENTOR, REPRESENTED_PORT
should be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
2021-10-13 22:59:26 +02:00
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2021-10-13 22:14:59 +02:00