On 7/21/2016 5:41 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-07-21 16:41, Igor Ryzhov:
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Ferruh Yigit
>> wrote:
>>> On 7/20/2016 5:07 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided.
Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy
Hi folks,
Just to clarify. Thomas is talking about removing just the KNI ethtool
(i.e. lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/*). The major functionality
of those 45K lines of code is to get the same MAC address on the KNI
interface and the underlying igb/ixgbe NIC.
At the moment the rest of the
2016-07-21 13:20, Jay Rolette:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Ferruh Yigit
> wrote:
> > KNI ethtool is functional and maintained, and it may have users!
> >
> > Why just removing it, specially without providing an alternative?
> > Is is good time to discuss KCP again?
>
> Yes, my product
2016-07-21 16:41, Igor Ryzhov:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Ferruh Yigit
> wrote:
> > On 7/20/2016 5:07 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided.
> > > Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature
> > > which is only partially supported.
>
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Thomas Monjalon
wrote:
> 2016-07-21 13:20, Jay Rolette:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Ferruh Yigit
> > wrote:
> > > KNI ethtool is functional and maintained, and it may have users!
> > >
> > > Why just removing it, specially without providing an
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Ferruh Yigit
wrote:
> On 7/20/2016 5:07 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided.
> > Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature
> > which is only partially supported.
> >
> > As described earlier in this plan:
The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided.
Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature
which is only partially supported.
As described earlier in this plan:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043606.html
it will help to keep PCI ids in PMD code.
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