Hi Thomas, > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 9:38 AM > To: Ananyev, Konstantin > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Marc Sune; Lu, Wenzhuo; Zhang, Helin; Harish Patil; > Chen, Jing D; Mcnamara, John > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/5] ethdev: redesign link speed config API > > 2016-01-29 09:24, Ananyev, Konstantin: > > Can you avoid modifications in the e1000/base code? > > We do not modify (and maintain) that part on our own. > > Instead we take it straight from Intel ND. > > So if you feel like these changes are really necessary - please submit a > > patch > > to ND first, and if your changes will be applied, will pick it up from them. > > I was not aware we can submit a change to ND for Intel base drivers. > What is the procedure please?
I meant not to the ND directly, but probably to the freebsd e1000 kernel driver. As I remember, that is the closest one to what we have. >From my understanding (I might be wrong here): If they will be accepted, we should see these changes In next code drops from ND. Konstantin > May it be documented in the DPDK doc? > > Thanks