From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E34D2BD1 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 140so75406515wmv.0 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:14:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pQSubM9CeC4x48NWStkf1qnuM2v0eUrveFiSezekC0c=; b=VCViT8V/EYLkZW3kacfU/blad/MPaeALQX2wOYQXF7FREbgpuoTSkDw8FiXwsY47tQ tuKnanudQgIB0vtaBXKEtLGHlTZHcKmMMnPJLtc8Nm27TDCgLHXx3zAohDQSz7EuWIWz ee0cxaM79AZiX9OyJDeM1npRKgkt9wYWys6nWJYPAmEgWHs7FnsSNvxQUdW8/y3838ZP h2hKlsAWEvW7rddgvQzV82BiAKzys43RSZR/iTAcNTKbqYytpz+Vsklh/QGUijYDwAkF /yKQWnSMEDPrVUFu8pgI61q5vsu/eiyppc1y/inuILS25CDBXPfa1Iu9rxFIScWlYE89 J6zA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pQSubM9CeC4x48NWStkf1qnuM2v0eUrveFiSezekC0c=; b=cMmcJmCH1yzMyNvBdIreZ036fEDn7D8jLZYjt3hD/8WG5QLBiJIhFzsd9Nvy/Ahiu0 qZhwOHPclYk/YZ2CusbXd1SuSpbjT8xHR/JbhKdtJleGOy1KrPkNeeFKRNWGmwoSrjvY EHRe/tUF1ARzwIv599M9YvAUb77uQnCD4gFyi3ZCk3TkVQiJ0SeFRuRwSbhf6tQYEgbs dCDFY/nbWg1f0SRaMiNkZvqTtZVG0ymsCgVdiwM5pgS1oSoflLbpGwYXZunjX1mni/Re RU5ZNNCUR1dTHxy6Ei36gSdP2k462WwhP99y1gpAFeK+OUWJbusbS4MSEvoyvuh2wCng UhXw== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvfr73RrxotWgwbRLwETXXoZ0dIXXM2Fo4h8dbAUQJ8fiHbEq09Ygnt9x66/cMCPDwz8 X-Received: by 10.194.161.193 with SMTP id xu1mr13853274wjb.67.1477660461615; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 70sm8879995wmv.1.2016.10.28.06.14.20 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:14:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:14:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4082712.Wtfd7g8Mk6@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4e5189f0-d340-ae7c-0300-aefd64041022@solarflare.com> References: <d0f0fa30-975f-8cce-7074-125f6190e908@solarflare.com> <1838661.tWJoShD1UF@xps13> <4e5189f0-d340-ae7c-0300-aefd64041022@solarflare.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Solarflare PMD submission question X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:14:25 -0000 2016-10-28 16:05, Andrew Rybchenko: > On 10/28/2016 03:33 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-10-28 13:50, Andrew Rybchenko: > >> First of all I'd like to double check that it is clear that we discuss > >> libefx > >> (base driver in terms of DPDK) import here. The PMD itself is already split > >> in 20+ patches. > > I don't know libefx. In DPDK, a base driver is often a subdirectory > > inside the PMD. Will it be the case? > > Yes. Just to be absolutely sure: are the discussed requirements to split > applicable to base driver import? Yes I'm talking about the base driver. But they are not some requirements. Take them as advices. The first priority is to welcome your new driver. The second priority is to make sure that it is open and readable enough.