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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:02:55 -0800
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On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:33:25 -0600
Jay Rolette <rolette@infiniteio.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I totally agree with Avi's comments.
> > This topic is really important for the future of DPDK.
> > So I think we must give some time to continue the discussion
> > and have netdev involved in the choices done.
> > As a consequence, these series should not be merged in the release 16.04.
> > Thanks for continuing the work.
> >
> 
> I know you guys are very interested in getting rid of the out-of-tree
> drivers, but please do not block incremental improvements to DPDK in the
> meantime. Ferruh's patch improves the usability of KNI. Don't throw out
> good and useful enhancements just because it isn't where you want to be in
> the end.
> 
> I'd like to see these be merged.
> 
> Jay

The code is really not ready. I am okay with cooperative development
but the current code needs to go into a staging type tree.
No compatibility, no ABI guarantees, more of an RFC.
Don't want vendors building products with it then screaming when it
gets rebuilt/reworked/scrapped.