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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] hv: uio driver
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:55:18 +0200
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2015-04-21 10:32, Stephen Hemminger:
> Add new UIO driver in kernel to support DPDK Poll Mode Driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stas Egorov <segorov@mirantis.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

We should not add a kernel driver in DPDK.
Stephen, you worked on upstreaming things in kernel and you often say that
maintaining an out-of-tree module is a nightmare. So why submitting this one
in DPDK?