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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] BUG - KNI broken in 4.2 kernel
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:44:28 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:45:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:56:16 +0000
> > "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > > Based on my experience, only one or two users asked for ethtool suppo=
rt, then we have it. Before that time, we don=E2=80=99t have KNI ethtool su=
pport.
> > > I did not mean who uses KNI does not care about it, I mean for those =
users who don=E2=80=99t use KNI, they shouldn=E2=80=99t be bothered by the =
KNI compilation issues. That=E2=80=99s why I was thinking if we can disable=
 it by default, but not remove it.
> > > =C2=A0
> > > Regards,
> > > Helin
> >=20
> > Can KNI instead use DPDK hooks to provide generic ethtool semantics.
> > That way it would work with all hardware.
>=20
> Hi Stephen,
>=20
> by this you mean that it's a generic library/kernel driver that acts as a=
 proxy to make calls
> into the ethdev library, rather than driver-specific calls? If so, that's=
 an idea
> that should be well worth pursuing. If it's something else you have in mi=
nd,
> please clarify.
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> /Bruce

Yes, not sure exactly how but the other changes to support ethtool like
semantics in DPDK seem to overlap here.