On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 04:41:12PM +0300, Tal Abudi wrote: > Hi > I have a fairly basic question. > What are the key differences between out of tree (sourceforge) and in-tree > drivers (Rehat 7.2) ? > I'm asking about igb/ixgbe/i40e driver.
They're similar but different beasts. For Red Hat, the authoritative source from which driver updates originate is Linus' kernel tree (or intermediately, Dave Miller's net trees). I'm not 100% certain on how the sourceforge drivers are maintained -- i.e., not sure if code goes there before Linus/Dave's trees, or only once it's in those trees, but it aims to be a universal "builds across tons of kernel versions" set of drivers, up-to-date with the latest hardware support and features, most of which Red Hat typically wouldn't provide between point releases. As in, Red Hat won't do new hardware or feature enablement for 7.2 update kernels, that sort of thing would be expected to land in 7.3 instead. Otherwise, the two should be reasonably similar to one another and to upstream. Some specific features may differ based on core kernel functionality though. Was there anything in particular of concern? -- Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
