From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30ED9A04B5; Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:16:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73295C9F8; Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:16:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60186C9F0 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:16:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052E05C0050; Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:16:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:16:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=fm2; bh= 15eLlG2gGJAcze7j4NmapnC5dxoLssC4NoKNR8o9CGs=; b=U78IUmazJWWIyIK1 kF6V3ckpPjoPZseIMWrBRTtha9RYMfU2T4bL5Q9J6+IvRmjUaMm54voP/vwbg5aj UutEZDqKJic8I7U4HkC3hH3nU5UhgBoWAfXK3fyl/FBtKyPGZ9zwY0gle/jXi4cO roYF1vANaaoiUf7RghVnRD3EoctFaKLe65blY5pIAqNZ0XJ4WTvDWK07Vif6Q5vt WG7LStnKrf1tlJqkX1hxOqv4otE6QR3ZCNMviUraU5/Md4Kg5YJEpaYNJhJ29rWC JdArQ84r+SDf877tB3vrjFAP+3VbTqLQu3QNtP56Lq7L1V/QpGaV1YyJLA5UM617 52skVA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=15eLlG2gGJAcze7j4NmapnC5dxoLssC4NoKNR8o9C Gs=; b=RsENDZXx+tyl+AYHpCXr+upAIZ1eet8yDstC/AGYdtw13j/qRIKV7QYzl C/uXWaqTUYG5JuMD7BVHBN4qWHR84+dyhopcIqI6BF9F02VkLF+mGF+obIRJLbzW UgXdyFuvPYm3Gxz7kzZYoY3nMq+gu68WFsiiyHAoOoWoU3QfavBdUuYyhd7XgBt+ zgwiONUO2/RaNC4y8K8H9JfQ/C43tNXzUk4Aey6gPSOa7/QM69H23deCCnGIIeQw +q6avZBzO12XvuPO8tfMcorsLuyv4+3yLhA2bHBjMnxgyQQhDKrAXrSRj5I27uyY 2IAfiEKBSwINV7SHcfQFKk3v/1Fkg== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedujedrleefgddugeeiucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhephffvufffkfgjfhgggfgtsehtufertddttddvnecuhfhrohhmpefvhhhomhgr shcuofhonhhjrghlohhnuceothhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvtheqnecugg ftrfgrthhtvghrnhepudeggfdvfeduffdtfeeglefghfeukefgfffhueejtdetuedtjeeu ieeivdffgeehnecukfhppeejjedrudefgedrvddtfedrudekgeenucevlhhushhtvghruf hiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghl ohhnrdhnvght X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D7B2B3280063; Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:16:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Hariprasad Govindharajan Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, bluca@debian.org Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:16:29 +0100 Message-ID: <2922821.HWUFmU6ibu@thomas> In-Reply-To: <1604002251-43812-2-git-send-email-hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com> References: <1601909255-26251-1-git-send-email-hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com> <1604002251-43812-1-git-send-email-hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com> <1604002251-43812-2-git-send-email-hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [prefix=DPDK_KMODS v6 2/2] linux/igb_uio: add Makefile to build the igb_uio module X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 29/10/2020 21:10, Hariprasad Govindharajan: > With DPDK 20.11 release, the igb_uio module is no more part of DPDK. > There are use cases where this module is required, for example while > testing the virtual ports in OvS, the virtual ports are bound to > igb_uio module inside a VM. So, this patch provides a Makefile > which can be used to build this module and use as needed. Please don't justify the use of igb_uio here. (and I think it's wrong, you can always use VFIO except on very old kernels) > Since there is no more dependency on DPDK headers, this module can be > built simply by running make in the source dir No need to talk about the old dependency here.