From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com (nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com [209.65.160.76]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDD05591 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:00:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown [193.34.186.16] (EHLO webmail.solarflare.com) by nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com(mxl_mta-7.2.4-7) with ESMTP id 768c6385.2ba7f4c0d940.1048994.00-2456.2247191.nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com (envelope-from ); Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:55 +0000 (UTC) X-MXL-Hash: 5836c8677a225dbc-5e5cfd96d77087a3b7c4788714dbaffe814da49c Received: from unknown [193.34.186.16] (EHLO webmail.solarflare.com) by nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com(mxl_mta-7.2.4-7) over TLS secured channel with ESMTP id 318c6385.0.1048893.00-2369.2246999.nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com (envelope-from ); Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:59:32 +0000 (UTC) X-MXL-Hash: 5836c814738cc43b-6be6287afd36062ddf31fb147b786627b6aa7f21 Received: from [192.168.38.17] (84.52.89.52) by ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1044.25; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:59:26 +0000 To: Stephen Hemminger References: <1479740470-6723-1-git-send-email-arybchenko@solarflare.com> <9cdced57-ba4c-fd0e-c509-904d333aab50@intel.com> <5d041f12-ec8d-77da-47ac-671eb3a39a5b@solarflare.com> <20161123112145.4aa2d794@samsung9.wavecable.com> CC: Ferruh Yigit , From: Andrew Rybchenko Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:59:15 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161123112145.4aa2d794@samsung9.wavecable.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [84.52.89.52] X-ClientProxiedBy: ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) To ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-11.0.0.1191-8.000.1202-22718.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--9.096900-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No X-AnalysisOut: [v=2.1 cv=P5Y8830u c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=8P+NB+fYZDP74ap4g4d9Kw==] X-AnalysisOut: [:17 a=RB3BGLmKESwA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=L24OOQBejmoA:10 ] X-AnalysisOut: [a=zRKbQ67AAAAA:8 a=CeJP6z-KfkyPRYAybKIA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:1] X-AnalysisOut: [0 a=PA03WX8tBzeizutn5_OT:22] X-Spam: [F=0.2000000000; CM=0.500; S=0.200(2015072901)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [193.34.186.16] Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/56] Solarflare libefx-based PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:55 -0000 On 11/23/2016 10:21 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:49:33 +0300 > Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > >> I've tried to explain it above in item (2): >> >> >>> >> >> 2. Another Solarflare PMD with in-kernel part (for control operations) >> is considered and could be added in the future. Code for data path >> should be shared by these two drivers. libefx-based PMD is put into >> 'efx' subdirectory to have a space for another PMD and shared code. >> >> <<< >> >> So, main reason is to have location for the code shared by two Solarflare >> network PMDs. May be it better to relocate when we really have it. >> I'm open for other ideas/suggestions. > So is this driver dependent on another non-upstream kernel driver to work? No, this driver does not have any external dependencies. > Is this documented in docs directory. If it does depend on other non-upstream > components, then the default config should disable the driver. Andrew.