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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/kni: add KNI PMD
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-09-06 11:33, Ferruh Yigit:
> > Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use.
> > 
> > KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the
> > Linux networking stack.
> 
> Good move!
> Why not deprecate librte_kni and move all the code in the PMD later?

+1 to this plan. However, I don't think it all needs to be done in one patchset,
though, does it?