From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: Solarflare PMD submission question Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:14:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4082712.Wtfd7g8Mk6@xps13> References: <1838661.tWJoShD1UF@xps13> <4e5189f0-d340-ae7c-0300-aefd64041022@solarflare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Andrew Rybchenko Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E34D2BD1 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 140so75406515wmv.0 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:14:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4e5189f0-d340-ae7c-0300-aefd64041022@solarflare.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" 2016-10-28 16:05, Andrew Rybchenko: > On 10/28/2016 03:33 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-10-28 13:50, Andrew Rybchenko: > >> First of all I'd like to double check that it is clear that we discuss > >> libefx > >> (base driver in terms of DPDK) import here. The PMD itself is already split > >> in 20+ patches. > > I don't know libefx. In DPDK, a base driver is often a subdirectory > > inside the PMD. Will it be the case? > > Yes. Just to be absolutely sure: are the discussed requirements to split > applicable to base driver import? Yes I'm talking about the base driver. But they are not some requirements. Take them as advices. The first priority is to welcome your new driver. The second priority is to make sure that it is open and readable enough.