From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0022AA00C2; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:55:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFC842DCB; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:55:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-pg1-f179.google.com (mail-pg1-f179.google.com [209.85.215.179]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2618942DBF for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:55:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pg1-f179.google.com with SMTP id 130so1973509pgc.5 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:55:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=4VZeyo1ycTNhHFMZ6CWctEAnSbfAMuUysgVmgVZRqFk=; b=KU10PSm7fD6Q31oqQZkrGlQCiTOBbv5OO2EIMewFhrazfzIDCqxQ+8qE4ePSbs4YWZ Ll1HtDL8VMOdDtujq9mP+oqsfLBhiPvsvPhDl3YdgK+Kvoe7Avv3u21BeKGhgwIWEuvy Pho+ARfxMGC4OmxaYuatoAVJqL5aHHmT+QiVuDcHFNnG4QuIw2Z6RIE2mjxWdX0ynM77 L+wXxgzsYEaZHTmsc7xJwarUD4gtR0JHCe64m1m4j7XQKyZlFmscGRlzABg6SVCU3f44 xK3O7OuDmSxg77z7Mo/hYmVWbay8r73tl2rDAkWJqK5t3mtEu17RheBW70pfE7YB8pJp 1cMg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4VZeyo1ycTNhHFMZ6CWctEAnSbfAMuUysgVmgVZRqFk=; b=6bYfT2DfesbV/QLP3XVgnNb+qfn1fRmWRUTwRyFqnJ7ppzmJayisGmC38BnERJDZkJ vG/0laWQHsyo9Hhr7sTQxwS4gfL3u1MPGn9/kjuJwKxUez7vwF/HPNrG1/oWHTPr8iT9 nmlrfV8BPQxqRQPlzbcikwxi9L5RG7lZj5SkmDo2udrg3+GAwU0cfs1SV2aMlpNg3QAX IdUj8SM0qi0xHY80prm/LC5RRtMNw2xPiasIszcvtmfX+j/OdbFUsq1k+a49D2xelmrd 4FWxgss2fEJvo/uC6vGA80M6u3p7WCDCxpIHoDKLnx6mceEpEIL9sinKpJfEiDXnLFNd DI2g== X-Gm-Message-State: ANoB5pnGSDkgqUh/8xeDWLvyWJK9bUUQSyIRs2YHidFiHYw0U5P8+GCw KWeaqqW7onxenGXpVRy8ATdLiQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA0mqf6Qd1goEVbJfeO8WsZyVRMPZ7U95JHfPS0H9YkofM2Xu+/nFEUoEOogr8h8pSUJFRXDnc54ew== X-Received: by 2002:a63:ea15:0:b0:457:7285:fd2d with SMTP id c21-20020a63ea15000000b004577285fd2dmr14152441pgi.580.1669308926404; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.local (204-195-120-218.wavecable.com. [204.195.120.218]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k32-20020a635620000000b004768b74f208sm1271398pgb.4.2022.11.24.08.55.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:55:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:55:25 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Ferruh Yigit Cc: Thomas Monjalon , , Olivier Matz , David Marchand , Elad Nachman , Igor Ryzhov , Dan Gora , Morten =?UTF-8?B?QnLDuHJ1cA==?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] doc: note KNI alternatives Message-ID: <20221124085525.244a553b@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <20221124114041.3169291-1-ferruh.yigit@amd.com> References: <20211124171609.3101896-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20221124114041.3169291-1-ferruh.yigit@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:40:40 +0000 Ferruh Yigit wrote: > +* It is out-of-tree Linux kernel module and it can't be distributed as binary as > + part of operating system vendor DPDK packages. This makes it harder to > + consume, although it is always possible to compile it from the source code. To be precise, there is no legal restriction here. Maybe something that describes why the process is awkward. * It is out-of-tree Linux kernel module which makes updating and distributing the driver more difficult. Most users end up building the KNI driver from source which requires the packages and tools to build kernel modules.