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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stas Egorov <segorov@mirantis.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/7] hv: uio driver
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2015-04-21 10:32, Stephen Hemminger:
> Add new UIO driver in kernel to support DPDK Poll Mode Driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stas Egorov <segorov@mirantis.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

We should not add a kernel driver in DPDK.
Stephen, you worked on upstreaming things in kernel and you often say that
maintaining an out-of-tree module is a nightmare. So why submitting this one
in DPDK?