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Does QAT communication chipest 8950 support stateful Deflate Compression?

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Hi,
Now I am trying to run the stateful data compression sample located in /dc/stateful_sample .My QAT is COMMUNICATION CHIPSET 8950. However,I found that this function is not supported by QAT. When i want to run this sample,the debug output is as following:
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[root@node5 stateful_sample]# ./dc_stateful_sample
main(): Starting Stateful Compression Sample Code App ...
dcStatefulSample(): cpaDcQueryCapabilities
dcStatefulSample(): Error: Unsupported functionality compression
main():
Stateful Compression Sample Code App failed
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Then i found the definition of the compression capabilities in sal_compression.c :
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#ifdef CNV_STRICT_MODE
pInstanceCapabilities->statefulDeflateCompression = CPA_FALSE;
#else
pInstanceCapabilities->statefulDeflateCompression = CPA_TRUE;
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I did not find the definition of CNV_STRICT_MODE,so is my QAT really not support stateful deflate compression?

Regards.

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