From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/56] Solarflare libefx-based PMD Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:21:45 -0800 Message-ID: <20161123112145.4aa2d794@samsung9.wavecable.com> References: <1479740470-6723-1-git-send-email-arybchenko@solarflare.com> <9cdced57-ba4c-fd0e-c509-904d333aab50@intel.com> <5d041f12-ec8d-77da-47ac-671eb3a39a5b@solarflare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ferruh Yigit , To: Andrew Rybchenko Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f51.google.com (mail-pg0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14532BB0 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:21:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id 3so9126494pgd.0 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5d041f12-ec8d-77da-47ac-671eb3a39a5b@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" On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:49:33 +0300 Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > I've tried to explain it above in item (2): > > >>> > > 2. Another Solarflare PMD with in-kernel part (for control operations) > is considered and could be added in the future. Code for data path > should be shared by these two drivers. libefx-based PMD is put into > 'efx' subdirectory to have a space for another PMD and shared code. > > <<< > > So, main reason is to have location for the code shared by two Solarflare > network PMDs. May be it better to relocate when we really have it. > I'm open for other ideas/suggestions. So is this driver dependent on another non-upstream kernel driver to work? Is this documented in docs directory. If it does depend on other non-upstream components, then the default config should disable the driver.