Re: [dpdk-dev] 2.3 Roadmap

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/01/2015 04:48 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
>>
>> On 01/12/2015 15:27, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem with that (unless I'm missing something here) is that KNI
>>> requires using out-of-tree kernel modules which makes it pretty much a
>>> non-option for distros.
>>
>>
>> It works fine with some distros. I do not think it should be an argument.
>
>
> Its not a question of *working*, its that out-of-tree kernel modules are
> considered unsupportable by the kernel people. So relying on KNI would make
> the otherwise important and desirable tcpdump feature non-existent on at
> least Fedora and RHEL where such modules are practically outright banned by
> distro policies.
>
>         - Panu -

+1 to that argument from an Ubuntu Point-of-View

Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd