From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov@nfware.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: remove ethtool support
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 09:46:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190524094616.71d5a13d@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190524162923.6318-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
On Fri, 24 May 2019 17:29:22 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> Current design requires kernel drivers and they need to be probed by
> Linux up to some level so that they can be usable by DPDK for ethtool
> support, this requires maintaining the Linux drivers in DPDK.
>
> Also ethtool support is limited and hard, if not impossible, to expand
> to other PMDs.
>
> Since KNI ethtool support is not used commonly, if not used at all,
> removing the support for the sake of simplicity and maintenance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-24 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-18 1:25 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-12-18 8:20 ` Igor Ryzhov
2018-12-18 9:20 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-12-18 18:17 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-01-05 16:55 ` Igor Ryzhov
2019-02-06 13:12 ` Igor Ryzhov
2019-02-18 12:33 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-02-18 13:07 ` Igor Ryzhov
2019-02-18 13:18 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-05-24 16:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Ferruh Yigit
2019-05-24 16:46 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-05-24 16:46 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-05-24 16:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2019-05-24 19:27 ` Neil Horman
2019-05-29 21:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
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