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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	dev@dpdk.org, "Olivier Matz" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	"David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Elad Nachman" <eladv6@gmail.com>,
	"Igor Ryzhov" <iryzhov@nfware.com>, "Dan Gora" <dg@adax.com>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] doc: note KNI alternatives
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:08:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443dc1ee-60b3-ee29-bf50-ab9eb24ef967@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221124085525.244a553b@hermes.local>

On 11/24/2022 4:55 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:40:40 +0000
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com> wrote:
> 
>> +* It is out-of-tree Linux kernel module and it can't be distributed as binary as
>> +  part of operating system vendor DPDK packages. This makes it harder to
>> +  consume, although it is always possible to compile it from the source code.
> 
> To be precise, there is no legal restriction here. Maybe something that describes
> why the process is awkward.
> 
> * It is out-of-tree Linux kernel module which makes updating and distributing the
>   driver more difficult. Most users end up building the KNI driver from source
>   which requires the packages and tools to build kernel modules.

ack, I will use above paragraph


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-24 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23 17:31 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: note KNI alternatives and deprecation plan Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-23 18:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-24  8:19   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-07-30 12:48 ` Olivier Matz
2021-11-23 10:21   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-20 12:58 ` David Marchand
2021-11-23 10:42   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-23 12:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: note KNI alternatives Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-23 12:08   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: announce KNI deprecation Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-24 14:00     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-24 13:58   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: note KNI alternatives Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-24 14:19     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-24 17:16 ` [PATCH v3 " Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-24 17:16   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: announce KNI deprecation Ferruh Yigit
2022-07-11 14:47     ` Jerin Jacob
2022-07-13 10:01     ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 11:01       ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-13 16:10     ` [PATCH v4] " Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 19:51       ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-15 15:33         ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-14  9:20       ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-14 10:07         ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-14 14:50         ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-07-14 15:03           ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-07-15 15:32             ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-14  9:30       ` David Marchand
2021-12-01 16:31   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] doc: note KNI alternatives Morten Brørup
2022-11-24 10:31     ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-24 11:40   ` [PATCH v5] " Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-24 16:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-11-24 17:08       ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2022-11-24 17:15     ` [PATCH v6] " Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-26 21:11       ` Thomas Monjalon

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