From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com (mail-wi0-f180.google.com [209.85.212.180]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4900158F6 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:43:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wijn1 with SMTP id n1so48086923wij.0 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:43:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=3jUkN/jKvnQ9kNr5gaIR3M7Tjj3ElU+rvIkyCp1y5yY=; b=AGsEns4mmoEt/EkWdb6yD5MTZOUpDDHXz0Cvy9wU2xw6iemBfUrPgeqlx9uAwzrM1G j5/dWVfy2h21kh1kpk8/bghYnVitAA/arSNjsWR53h4CPk5yogJbYnvNRwbs3lJkEOgJ ehLGeSkWsHre7GUvff/SIi1AOxJzFXb3VzwsmjXaLKxGg6C2I/a+Wynv1DJ7IMD4yCZz xw2Q9cLlN3b7DOOoFvI/Q6KqZ/0ZtQVijbuMdS9r0WhviVfX1NOenGQpTAn4UK/1OdOA 23btwUgji7ff5cWj+ocgclBtx6WuZDPS5cvxjtYgUan+27pcn4qq7oqxgb4RKQnTWrVc ZSDg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnwHGo4xINB8bOrFQKhWoiPMP/8jcei+xcRiIR1ltCLETdA6ngeulHG10Wb5MXB7FHFHPl8 X-Received: by 10.180.208.34 with SMTP id mb2mr18104122wic.88.1440664991076; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (guy78-3-82-239-227-177.fbx.proxad.net. [82.239.227.177]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h9sm1959257wjx.20.2015.08.27.01.43.10 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:43:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:41:59 +0200 Message-ID: <2977472.7tFezkZAUv@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.4-2-ARCH; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150826171516.7160bcb2@urahara> References: <20150826171516.7160bcb2@urahara> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] BUG - KNI broken in 4.2 kernel X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:43:11 -0000 2015-08-26 17:15, Stephen Hemminger: > The network device ops handles changed again. > > Does KNI really need to keep yet another copy of the Intel driver code. > There already are 4 versions: > 1. Out-of tree base driver > 2. In-kernel mainline Linux driver > 3. DPDK driver > 4. KNI DPDK driver You forgot the BSD drivers and probably others. > No wonder they can't stay in sync. A patch to remove igb/ixgbe drivers from KNI would be welcome.