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From: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: Solarflare PMD submission question
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:05:20 +0300
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On 10/28/2016 03:33 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-10-28 13:50, Andrew Rybchenko:
>> First of all I'd like to double check that it is clear that we discuss
>> libefx
>> (base driver in terms of DPDK) import here. The PMD itself is already split
>> in 20+ patches.
> I don't know libefx. In DPDK, a base driver is often a subdirectory
> inside the PMD. Will it be the case?

Yes. Just to be absolutely sure: are the discussed requirements to split
applicable to base driver import?

Andrew.