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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 15:27:48 -0400
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: remove ethtool support
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On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 05:55:20PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> 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>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>