From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Hariprasad Govindharajan <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com,
bluca@debian.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [prefix=DPDK_KMODS v6 2/2] linux/igb_uio: add Makefile to build the igb_uio module
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:16:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2922821.HWUFmU6ibu@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1604002251-43812-2-git-send-email-hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>
29/10/2020 21:10, Hariprasad Govindharajan:
> With DPDK 20.11 release, the igb_uio module is no more part of DPDK.
> There are use cases where this module is required, for example while
> testing the virtual ports in OvS, the virtual ports are bound to
> igb_uio module inside a VM. So, this patch provides a Makefile
> which can be used to build this module and use as needed.
Please don't justify the use of igb_uio here.
(and I think it's wrong, you can always use VFIO except on very old kernels)
> Since there is no more dependency on DPDK headers, this module can be
> built simply by running make in the source dir
No need to talk about the old dependency here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-05 14:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] linux/igb_uio: add Makefile to build the kernel module Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-05 15:12 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-05 16:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-05 16:26 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-05 18:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-10-05 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK_KMODS v3] " Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-05 17:57 ` Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-06 9:02 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-07 12:50 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-10-08 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK_KMODS v4] " Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-08 9:43 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-10-19 18:07 ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-10-21 11:37 ` Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
2020-10-10 1:30 ` Ma, LihongX
2020-10-28 21:09 ` Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile
2020-10-29 10:16 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-10-29 18:42 ` Govindharajan, Hariprasad
2020-10-29 19:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK_KMODS v5] " Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-29 19:31 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-29 21:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-29 20:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [prefix=DPDK_KMODS v6 1/2] linux/igb_uio: remove DPDK dependency for building igb_uio Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-29 20:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [prefix=DPDK_KMODS v6 2/2] linux/igb_uio: add Makefile to build the igb_uio module Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-29 20:17 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-29 21:16 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-10-29 20:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [prefix=DPDK_KMODS v6 1/2] linux/igb_uio: remove DPDK dependency for building igb_uio Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-29 21:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-30 10:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-29 21:28 ` David Marchand
2020-10-29 21:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-29 23:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH DPDK_KMODS v7 " Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-29 23:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH DPDK_KMODS v7 2/2] linux/igb_uio: add Makefile to build the igb_uio module Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-30 10:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH DPDK_KMODS v7 1/2] linux/igb_uio: remove DPDK dependency for building igb_uio Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-30 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk-kmods v8 " Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-30 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk-kmods v8 2/2] linux/igb_uio: add Makefile to build the igb_uio module Hariprasad Govindharajan
2020-10-30 11:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk-kmods v8 1/2] linux/igb_uio: remove DPDK dependency for building igb_uio Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-30 11:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
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