Re: [dpdk-dev] Vendor specific sub-trees under next-net

[Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>]

Friday, October 13, 2017 2:31 AM, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 10/13/2017 12:29 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > Hi Thomas, et al
> >
> > Previously it has been mentioned [1] to have vendor specific driver
> > trees under next-net.
> >
> > And recently Mellanox agreed to have a Mellanox tree [2].
> >
> > Intel also agrees to have next-net-intel, and Helin will be
> > maintaining it, thanks to Helin for volunteering.
> >
> > Other vendors with multiple drivers are Cavium, 6wind and NXP.
> >
> >
> > - Is there a name for Mellanox maintainer?

I will be the maintainer of Mellanox tree. 

> >
> > - What do other vendors, mentioned above, thinks about creating their
> > own sub-tree?
> >
> > - Are the vendor sub-trees and their maintainers need to be approved
> > by tech-board?
> >
> >
> > And what I understand from vendor specific sub-trees is, instead of
> > driver patches going into next-net directly, they will go into vendor
> > tree and next-net will pull from them.

We need to define this more carefully.
Sometimes a patchset has driver patches but also some patches for ethdev and testpmd/example.

What if other vendor would like to use those patches?
How frequent will be the merging between the vendor-specific tree and next-net? 

Am not saying there is an issue here, just need to define the rules. 

> >
> > This will distribute the maintenance work among the vendors, also will
> > give more control to vendors on their patches.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ferruh
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
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> Using correct mail address for Thomas.