Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs virtio?

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:10:56 +0000
"O'Driscoll, Tim" <tim.odriscoll@intel.com> wrote:

> I've included a couple of specific comments inline below, and a general comment here.
> 
> We have somebody proposing to add a new driver to DPDK. It's standalone and doesn't affect any of the core libraries. They're willing to maintain the driver and have included a patch to update the maintainers file. They've also included the relevant documentation changes. I haven't seen any negative comment on the patches themselves except for a request from John McNamara for an update to the Release Notes that was addressed in a later version. I think we should be welcoming this into DPDK rather than questioning/rejecting it.
> 
> I'd suggest that this is a good topic for the next Tech Board meeting.

This is a virtualization driver for supporting DPDK on platform that provides an alternative
virtual network driver. I see no reason it shouldn't be part of DPDK. Given the unstable
ABI for drivers, supporting out of tree DPDK drivers is difficult. The DPDK should try
to be inclusive and support as many environments as possible.