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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets
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2015-09-24 15:13, Ravi Kerur:
> M. Jay(Jayakumar, Muthurajan<muthurajan.jayakumar@intel.com>) and I
> discussed and decided to include support for I217/I218 chipsets
[...]
>  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_api.c              |  1 +
>  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h               |  1 +
>  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_ich8lan.c          | 30 +++++++-----------------
>  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_osdep.h            | 24 +++++++++++++++----

You are modifying the base driver which is only allowed by Intel. But there
can be exceptions. Wenzhuo, is it an exception?