From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Panu Matilainen Subject: Re: 2.3 Roadmap Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:58:08 +0200 Message-ID: <565DB580.9090209@redhat.com> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA674705F1@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <20151130171655.70e4ce25@xeon-e3> <20151201100333.GA32252@bricha3-MOBL3> <565DAE6E.5040102@redhat.com> <565DB356.9060602@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Vincent JARDIN , Bruce Richardson , Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA728D89 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:58:11 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <565DB356.9060602@6wind.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 12/01/2015 04:48 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > On 01/12/2015 15:27, Panu Matilainen wrote: >> The problem with that (unless I'm missing something here) is that KNI >> requires using out-of-tree kernel modules which makes it pretty much a >> non-option for distros. > > It works fine with some distros. I do not think it should be an argument. Its not a question of *working*, its that out-of-tree kernel modules are considered unsupportable by the kernel people. So relying on KNI would make the otherwise important and desireable tcpdump feature non-existent on at least Fedora and RHEL where such modules are practically outright banned by distro policies. - Panu -