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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:34:39 +0000
"Butler, Siobhan A" <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen 
> Will you have documentation to go along with these changes?
> Thanks
> Siobhan

Unlikely. Microsoft or other contributors might add something
in a later version.

The documentation that exists in DPDK related drivers just
won't scale as more drivers are added. It needs to be massively
simplified and generalized.