From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com (mail-pa0-f51.google.com [209.85.220.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B91ADA3 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 03:02:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id bj10so53958238pad.2 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:02:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8ZbHoVKbUtfV5FV37KUnD1Yi89aECnD/4OUbH6/HhFw=; b=bQs0N9gPRNe7rnHsm+Ux1X32aQJJMcQdVKZKKszf4YZ3nQwGENSHeZg9iHoK4eolr+ fpHuT+dJSl2151qbADe/si+7dhhunksQQ6UXeX4iafk74xKwNbH0AZ5Sfh57aZW9Qm3S Ce7IMPmXljhseIilag5JTeTIr1XuBeXs4K3k6iVML4q1kcTZjVdUX57wst14SZpeLZZz g5wl8HcLFLRzVRBKgHm3PVGW9f451cLs4apjaJ4zkQ6678tDneltAgMZ6URFR4uLxEeN IDXTj3Avq7H6neWmIm8BYW6/ii96vCyRWTvWNWO/8WMZiOX8507KBBiOZbfwbRlD2WKd OeLA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8ZbHoVKbUtfV5FV37KUnD1Yi89aECnD/4OUbH6/HhFw=; b=kay/+MQGrLViuiG71UNFJSfV/PyzYBinapxFh9BLj4jBdHqnAb8N6Xta5A2TczVsDa 0ydE6WF76Q3PloflK9lAPPmVhgQ85h9Nf++jM5+rn05MDRA18guivqjKbck9pa39ENkc lncavW3HdZ0U6NpuQCLU3Kj2HuEkriT9w8f8ZgAUlhE8G0XYCaf7kCO98ddbIVMLLfQ/ HV2yixOQY66jPk57TYApYOQ8WtNrQL4v5O8L+S7Bg4Fl50B7SlY3OiLhJyrRvdmQH3Va E6GoB2wXubADH+FY3DEDSIy7sxe7rd56bg60Ktgf4jzr2+uEnaHHTqIqC2cQqhIjMRQP +fBA== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJKi3IjTPA+NWu0lQatMbgoOtp23cN09wBxY9esgWim+ICr8v0T/zspgGYztSRyGnA== X-Received: by 10.67.5.9 with SMTP id ci9mr34926681pad.101.1456884162471; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:02:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from xeon-e3 (static-50-53-82-155.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net. [50.53.82.155]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a25sm7397167pfj.40.2016.03.01.18.02.41 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:02:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:02:55 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Jay Rolette Message-ID: <20160301180255.3ef1a17e@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: References: <1453911849-16562-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <56D420E5.9010802@intel.com> <56D42462.3020905@scylladb.com> <1945473.Tiatd2m80T@xps13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: DPDK , Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 02:02:43 -0000 On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:33:25 -0600 Jay Rolette wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I totally agree with Avi's comments. > > This topic is really important for the future of DPDK. > > So I think we must give some time to continue the discussion > > and have netdev involved in the choices done. > > As a consequence, these series should not be merged in the release 16.04. > > Thanks for continuing the work. > > > > I know you guys are very interested in getting rid of the out-of-tree > drivers, but please do not block incremental improvements to DPDK in the > meantime. Ferruh's patch improves the usability of KNI. Don't throw out > good and useful enhancements just because it isn't where you want to be in > the end. > > I'd like to see these be merged. > > Jay The code is really not ready. I am okay with cooperative development but the current code needs to go into a staging type tree. No compatibility, no ABI guarantees, more of an RFC. Don't want vendors building products with it then screaming when it gets rebuilt/reworked/scrapped.