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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: deprecate enable_kmods option
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:03:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230810080312.1efd2d3c@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230810131809.493973-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:18:09 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> With the removal of the kni kernel driver, there are no longer any
> Linux kernel modules in our repository, leaving only modules for FreeBSD
> present. Since:
> 
> * BSD has no issues with out-of-tree modules and
> * There are no in-tree equivalents for those modules in BSD
> 
> there is no point in building for BSD without those modules.
> 
> Therefore, we can remove the enable_kmods option, always building the
> kmods for BSD.
> 
> We can also remove the infrastructure for Linux kmods too, since use of
> out-of-tree modules for Linux is not something the DPDK project wants to
> pursue in future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-10 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-10 13:18 [PATCH] build: deprecate enable_kmods option Bruce Richardson
2023-08-10 15:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-08-10 15:44 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-29  9:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-06  9:53 ` David Marchand

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