Re: [PATCH v14 01/13] net/sxe: add base driver directory and doc

Stephen Hemminger
2025-12-26T22:39:59Z

On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:22:12 +0800
liujie5@linkdatatechnology.com wrote:

> From: Jie Liu <liujie5@linkdatatechnology.com>
>
> Adding a minimum maintainable directory structure for the
> network driver and request maintenance of the sxe driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <liujie5@linkdatatechnology.com>

I do not like that this driver has to invent its own tracing facility.
The DPDK already has one, and adding a driver specific tracing is
a bad precedent. The goal of DPDK is to abstract the interface to the
hardware and make it possible for applications to work everywhere.

I understand that you may need/want more data to resolve internal
driver bugs. Is it possible to use existing trace API for this.

Build is failing please resolve the issues and resubmit.