From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] BUG - KNI broken in 4.2 kernel
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:45:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150827104543.0138ab53@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F35DEAC7BCE34641BA9FAC6BCA4A12E70A8E7810@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:56:16 +0000
"Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> Based on my experience, only one or two users asked for ethtool support, then we have it. Before that time, we don’t have KNI ethtool support.
> I did not mean who uses KNI does not care about it, I mean for those users who don’t use KNI, they shouldn’t be bothered by the KNI compilation issues. That’s why I was thinking if we can disable it by default, but not remove it.
>
> Regards,
> Helin
Can KNI instead use DPDK hooks to provide generic ethtool semantics.
That way it would work with all hardware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-27 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 0:15 Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-27 8:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-08-27 9:58 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2015-08-27 15:23 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-08-27 15:49 ` Jay Rolette
2015-08-27 15:56 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-08-27 17:45 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-08-27 17:53 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-08-28 12:44 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-08-28 15:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
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