On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:07:38 +0100 Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 24/09/2020 19:12, Alexander Kotliarov: > > Hi there! > > I would like to find out what is the policy regarding changes to the DPDK's > > kmod drivers such as igb_uio.ko within a DPDK's LTS release. Are these > > changes backward compatible? > > For example, is there a guarantee that an application built > > against 19.11.5, where igb_uio.ko received changes,would run with this > > driver built from 19.11.1 version? > > > > Does http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html section 8.4 apply > > to kmod drivers as well? > > There is no such formal guarantee, but in my opinion, > it should be the case. Do you imagine a change in kmod > which could break a DPDK version? Why do you still need to use igb_uio? Can you use vfio instead?
