From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, matan@nvidia.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, asafp@nvidia.com, shys@nvidia.com,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Madhan Sivakumar <madhans@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS remove experimental tag from vdev_netvsc
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:01:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6566986.U07BT64AKW@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15404332.k47CZtomYU@thomas>
06/10/2020 00:41, Thomas Monjalon:
> 15/09/2020 16:47, Stephen Hemminger:
> > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/15/2020 3:03 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > > Vdev_netvsc has been around for several years. It no longer needs
> > > > to be marked experimental.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > -Microsoft vdev_netvsc - EXPERIMENTAL
> > > > +Microsoft vdev_netvsc
> > > > M: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> > > > F: drivers/net/vdev_netvsc/
> > > > F: doc/guides/nics/vdev_netvsc.rst
> > >
> > > As far as I remember 'vdev_netvsc' was interim solution until 'netvsc'
> > > was ready. In this patchset 'netvsc' is also becoming mature.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't be easier to keep 'vdev_netvsc' experimental to be able to
> > > remove it soon?
> >
> > Let me discuss with Long Li and management.
> > Maybe replace EXPERIMENTAL with DEPRECATED in 20.11.
>
> Would be strange to switch from experimental to deprecated :)
>
> +Cc Matan
>
> I think you still need this platform driver (with failsafe and tap)
> in case you need rte_flow. Or is it well supported with netvsc PMD?
No update...
I classify this patch as rejected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 2:03 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] MAINTAINERS changes related to netvsc Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-15 2:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS remove experimental tag from vdev_netvsc Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-15 9:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-15 14:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-10-05 22:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-27 14:01 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-11-28 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-15 2:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS - drop Kys and Haiyang Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-15 2:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS - remove expermental tag of netvsd PMD Stephen Hemminger
2020-11-27 14:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] MAINTAINERS changes related to netvsc Thomas Monjalon
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