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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:46 AM
> To: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>; David
> Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>; Zhang, Helin
> <helin.zhang@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] slow data path communication
> between DPDK port and Linux
> >
> > We can't remove it.
>=20
> Why?

There are a lot of people using KNI.


> > We can't replace/improve it -you were one of the major opposition to th=
is.
> > This doesn't leave more option other than using it.
>=20
> Why cannot we replace it by something upstream?

In theory it could be upstreamed. Let's see how we get on with upstreaming =
the KCP component first.

John