2016-04-13 9:21 GMT-07:00 Traynor, Kevin <kevin.tray...@intel.com>: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Panu > Matilainen > > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:50 AM > > To: Weglicki, MichalX <michalx.wegli...@intel.com>; dev@openvswitch.org > > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Update relevant artifacts to add support > for > > DPDK 16.04. > > > > [snip] > > > As an aside, I've been thinking maybe this is a case where OVS could > > support both DPDK 2.2 and 16.04. I know its unprecedented but maybe that > > could change, restricting OVS to just one DPDK version seems > > unnecessarily strict when talking about differences this trivial. > > Judging by the ML, it's more commonly requested to use the current release > of DPDK with the last release of OVS e.g. OVS 2.5 and DPDK 16.04, than > people > wanting OVS master with DPDK X-1. > > Even for a trivial case like above - it would be ok now to add support for > DPDK X-1 > but if we then add OVS code to take advantage of new DPDK X features (e.g. > vhost > pmd) we'll end up with messy code. Also testing efforts would increase > (double?), > so I don't think we would get it without a cost. >
I agree, I'd still prefer to support a single version > > Kevin. > > > > > - Panu - > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > dev@openvswitch.org > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev