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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/kni: add KNI PMD
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2016-09-06 11:33, Ferruh Yigit:
> Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use.
> 
> KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the
> Linux networking stack.

Good move!
Why not deprecate librte_kni and move all the code in the PMD later?