From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2A92A5D for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:56:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2016 04:56:03 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,675,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="33956433" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.57]) ([10.237.220.57]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2016 04:56:02 -0800 To: Keith Wiles , dev@dpdk.org References: <1474423220-10207-1-git-send-email-keith.wiles@intel.com> <1476396234-44694-1-git-send-email-keith.wiles@intel.com> Cc: pmatilai@redhat.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:56:01 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1476396234-44694-1-git-send-email-keith.wiles@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9] drivers/net:new PMD using tun/tap host interface 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: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:56:04 -0000 On 10/13/2016 11:03 PM, Keith Wiles wrote: > The rte_eth_tap.c PMD creates a device using TUN/TAP interfaces > on the local host. The PMD allows for DPDK and the host to > communicate using a raw device interface on the host and in > the DPDK application. The device created is a Tap device with > a L2 packet header. > > v9 - Fix up the docs to use correct syntax > v8 - Fix issue with tap_tx_queue_setup() not return zero on success. > v7 - Reword the comment in common_base and fix the data->name issue > v6 - fixed the checkpatch issues > v5 - merge in changes from list review see related emails > fixed many minor edits > v4 - merge with latest driver changes > v3 - fix includes by removing ifdef for other type besides Linux > Fix the copyright notice in the Makefile > v2 - merge all of the patches into one patch > Fix a typo on naming the tap device > Update the maintainers list > > Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles > --- Just a reminder, this is a new PMD and waiting for community review.