From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com (mail-we0-f169.google.com [74.125.82.169]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FADB3B2 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:47:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t60so1361347wes.28 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:48:00 -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=0n99L7UJ1h6l2b6Y6PyZbBpSjNKwv4OwhNzcTbizFyY=; b=eduOuZJZYM1HV/RQJsuuxjtt/j18ePIYA/0PS26ST6TpeIaVbFd/PrfP0H3WaR6mGn UVSRW7xLV+zXpX1STi9NaFuqQ3oOmO6xzqcKFE+7CT33rx3hblsUDi0VzngfGBx7DS07 K9J2NVwJYI04byjjM31jC7CEd+lFBuJ+FiEeZ7ThNir9O5x4ZpGUuvDjRvee5p7whIRI g2yGkz42dr8v2JJcXkQ7g7BWqZEp2WAsfw+Rs6bB6AtvznwbwdzxVbGq+2+3kFfdK+vn 9QiuIMulFwdg9Lp3/G3LDREz6lNPC/yB5wGLZH1vOf6mGHGh8XONC9rnI/guYjucv+26 mLhg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlKDF+OX8tJSmFKiRiYTAjsvoNOSOEWtKP8kmYPATjmtJkJeMconh/z09W8T6ZAhZYq9PiI X-Received: by 10.194.62.5 with SMTP id u5mr142153wjr.46.1405097279642; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id lq17sm9210530wic.19.2014.07.11.09.47.57 for <multiple recipients> (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:47:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:47:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4763701.40HJ79Bo5S@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.13.1 (Linux/3.14.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.13.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140711153006.GC25478@tuxdriver.com> References: <1405024369-30058-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> <1669414.yQGOz8cIDY@xps13> <20140711153006.GC25478@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-based virtual devices X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:47:36 -0000 2014-07-11 11:30, John W. Linville: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:04:04PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2014-07-11 10:51, John W. Linville: > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > Thank you for this nice work. > > > > > > > > I think it would be well suited to host this PMD as an external one in > > > > order to make it work also with DPDK 1.7.0. > > > > > > I'm not sure I understand the suggestion -- you don't want to merge > > > the driver for 1.8? Or you just want to host this patch somewhere, > > > so people can still use it w/ 1.7? > > > > I suggest to have a separated repository here: > > http://dpdk.org/browse/ > > I really don't see any reason not to merge it. It was already delayed > by me waiting for all the PMD init changes to settle out in the 1.6 > release, and I still had to do a few touch-ups for it to compile on > 1.7. I definitely do not want to have to do that over and over again. It's a pity that we didn't synchronize our efforts to make it integrated during 1.7.0 cycle. > Why wouldn't you just merge it? If someone wants to use it on 1.7, > they can just apply the patch. I'm OK to merge it. I was only suggesting to host your PMD externally like we did for virtio-net-pmd, vmxnet3-usermap and memnic. It was the same discussion for the vmxnet3 PMD that Stephen submitted. I start thinking that nobody wants PMD to be external. So we may merge this one in dpdk.git and start talking what to do for the other ones: - move memnic in dpdk.git? - move virtio-net-pmd and vmxnet3-usermap where sits their uio counterparts? - merge Brocade's vmxnet3 as new one or as a replacement for vmxnet3-uio? -- Thomas