From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Sune Subject: Re: Why nothing since 1.8.0? Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:51:55 +0100 Message-ID: <54B9258B.9060208@bisdn.de> References: <20150114122352.63ef79eb@urahara> <1717148.0lUn7GOqmp@xps13> <20150115130616.GA22455@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <12253538.YOLaLVcskf@xps13> <20150115185112.GC22455@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150115185112.GC22455-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On 15/01/15 19:51, Neil Horman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 06:25:33PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> 2015-01-15 08:06, Neil Horman: >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:51:38AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>>> 2015-01-15 04:27, Ouyang, Changchun: >>>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Zhang, Helin >>>>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Neil Horman >>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:23:52PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>>>>>>> Ok, so 1.8.0 came out almost a month ago and none of the patches >>>>>>>> that were deferred waiting for the release got merged since then. >>>>>>>> Last commit in git is the 1.8.0 release. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Where is the post-merge window bundle, where are the later commits? >>>>>>>> Lots of patches are sitting rotting in patchwork... >>>>>>> +1, I've had the same questions. >>>>>>> Neil >>>>>> +1, Some patch set might be ready for being merged. >>>>> +1, the earlier some patches are merged into mainline, and the easier those >>>>> sequent patch sets can resolve their conflicts. >>>> +1, there are some patches which are properly reviewed >>>> >>>> Reminder: sub-tree to manage specific part of DPDK can be open on request >>> Ok, I think what you're saying here is you're too busy to handle all the patches >>> comming in at the moment. As such I'd like to propose a sub-tree encompassing >>> all the pmds in DPDK. I would envision that including all the acutal pmd's in >>> the tree, as well as the infrastructure that is used to interface them to the >>> core (i.e. the ethdev/rte_ether library). I'll gladly maintain the patch pool >>> and send you pull requests. >> [snip] >> And that doesn't account for the ~500 patches that come in via pull >> request from the wireless subtree. Nor does it account for the merge >> window for net-next being 2 months instead of dpdk's 6 months. Neil, I don't want to hinder the discussion but: could you please point me out where this wireless subtree is? Maybe I am too blind, but I cannot see it here: http://dpdk.org/browse/ We are interested in acceleration for wireless NICs. Marc [snip]