Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: release software locked semaphores on initialization

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

Hi Thomas,
I am afraid I couldn't send you an url we are using.
We take it from internal Intel ND repository.
Though I think, that latest available to download from Intel ixgbe driver for FreeBSD should have pretty close codebase. 
As a rule of thumb in our internal policy: we take shared code from ND and treat it as read-only (the only exception: ixgbe/ixgbe_osdep.h).
Otherwise it might  become quite messy pretty quickly.
To overcome some problems or shortcomings in ND code people usually use wrappers at the upper layer - that way  was implemented bypass support, loopback support, plus some other fixes (reported number of queues per  VF, etc).
I wonder couldn't your fix also be pushed to the upper layer (in ixgbe_ethdev.c or something)?
Thanks
Konstantin 

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:52 PM
To: Ananyev, Konstantin
Cc: Didier Pallard; dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: release software locked semaphores on initialization

19/02/2014 13:41, Ananyev, Konstantin:
> Can the patch be reworked to keep changes under librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe 
> directory untouched? Those files are derived directly from the BSD 
> driver baseline, and any changes will make future merges of newer code 
> more challenging. The changes should be limited to files in the 
> librte_pmd_ixgbe directory (and ethdev). Thanks

Please, could you send an url to the BSD driver baseline ?
By the way, git is very good at rebasing such patches.
And if the fix is good, it should be applied on the baseline.
Refusing a fix without alternative is not an option.

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Thomas
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