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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:31:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ntnic: add PMD driver
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I think that if the driver is just a shim for proprietary code, then the
vendor should just maintain it out of tree. 6wind and windriver already do
this.