Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-based virtual devices

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2014-07-11 11:30, John W. Linville:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:04:04PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2014-07-11 10:51, John W. Linville:
> > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > Thank you for this nice work.
> > > > 
> > > > I think it would be well suited to host this PMD as an external one in
> > > > order to make it work also with DPDK 1.7.0.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure I understand the suggestion -- you don't want to merge
> > > the driver for 1.8?  Or you just want to host this patch somewhere,
> > > so people can still use it w/ 1.7?
> > 
> > I suggest to have a separated repository here:
> > 	http://dpdk.org/browse/
> 
> I really don't see any reason not to merge it.  It was already delayed
> by me waiting for all the PMD init changes to settle out in the 1.6
> release, and I still had to do a few touch-ups for it to compile on
> 1.7.  I definitely do not want to have to do that over and over again.

It's a pity that we didn't synchronize our efforts to make it integrated 
during 1.7.0 cycle.

> Why wouldn't you just merge it?  If someone wants to use it on 1.7,
> they can just apply the patch.

I'm OK to merge it. I was only suggesting to host your PMD externally like we 
did for virtio-net-pmd, vmxnet3-usermap and memnic.
It was the same discussion for the vmxnet3 PMD that Stephen submitted.

I start thinking that nobody wants PMD to be external. So we may merge this 
one in dpdk.git and start talking what to do for the other ones:
	- move memnic in dpdk.git?
	- move virtio-net-pmd and vmxnet3-usermap where sits their uio 
counterparts?
	- merge Brocade's vmxnet3 as new one or as a replacement for vmxnet3-uio?

-- 
Thomas