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From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Create kern folder for Linux kernel modules
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 15:34:47 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e293147-9c72-9e77-97cb-9aabc9e5af39@nxp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2388140.F1AUfV8GGA@xps>

On 12/22/2017 2:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 22/12/2017 06:57, Hemant Agrawal:
>> This patch moves the Linux kernel modules code to a common place.
>>  - Separate the kernel module code from user space code.
>>  - The GPL-2.0 licensed code is separated from the BSD-3 licensed userspace
>>    code
>
> What is the benefit of separate things by license?

The separation makes it easy to identify and check the license.

Any patch introducing new file in *non-kern* folders shall not be 
GPL-2.0 licensed.  Or GPL-2.0 license is allowed only for kern folder.

> These modules are Linux modules, so they should be in the linuxapp dir.


This is a cleaner separation w.r.t userspace/kernel space code.
*kern* is a better placefolder for LKMs.

Also eal is not getting overloaded.

linuxapp is part of librte_eal.  KNI is not related to EAL, but still 
the kni kernel code is added to librte_eal under linuxapp.


> There are also some kernel modules in the bsdapp directory.

We can move them as well.

>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-22 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-22  5:57 Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-22  8:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22 10:04   ` Hemant Agrawal [this message]
2017-12-22 11:38     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22 13:59       ` Wiles, Keith
2017-12-22 14:17         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22 14:51           ` Wiles, Keith
2017-12-22 16:25             ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-22 14:28       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2017-12-22 13:05     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-26  6:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kernel folder for Linux and BSD modules Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-26  8:10   ` Tiwei Bie
2017-12-26  8:50     ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-26  8:58   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-01-10  6:46     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-01-10 11:04       ` Richardson, Bruce
2018-01-12 15:00       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-02-21  8:09         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-02-21 10:56           ` Bruce Richardson
2018-02-22  6:09           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Hemant Agrawal
2018-03-21 18:42             ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-22 10:27               ` Bruce Richardson
2018-03-22 10:48                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-22 16:27             ` Thomas Monjalon

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