From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:08:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20345734.BlVfqR1MBs@xps13> References: <1443132825-10973-1-git-send-email-rkerur@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Ravi Kerur Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com [209.85.212.169]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676853B5 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:09:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wicgb1 with SMTP id gb1so7420667wic.1 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:09:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1443132825-10973-1-git-send-email-rkerur@gmail.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-09-24 15:13, Ravi Kerur: > M. Jay(Jayakumar, Muthurajan) and I > discussed and decided to include support for I217/I218 chipsets [...] > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_api.c | 1 + > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h | 1 + > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_ich8lan.c | 30 +++++++----------------- > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_osdep.h | 24 +++++++++++++++---- You are modifying the base driver which is only allowed by Intel. But there can be exceptions. Wenzhuo, is it an exception?