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From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 07:05:40PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> - ixgbe driver in the package is very different from the driver in the
>   Linux kernel -- when bugs in one are found, who is in charge of copying
>   the fixes between the two code bases?

It's not the Linux driver. It's from BSD because DPDK uses mbufs. The 
MAINTAINERS file / Intel team refreshes it w/ shared code from their upstream 
BSD support.

Matthew.