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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SDK: Add scripts to initialize DPDK runtime
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:04:43 +0000
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On 1/17/2019 5:38 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:19:00 +0100
> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> Stefans mail got rejected by moderator (??!), reposting FYI as I'm
>> subscribed and should autopass the moderation.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 13.12.2016 08:00, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:  
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Luca Boccassi <lboccass@brocade.com
>>>> <mailto:lboccass@brocade.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     If the 2 authors (CC'ed Stefan, the second one) agree and give
>>>>     permission it could be relicensed to BSD.
>>>>
>>>>     Stefan, Christian, is that OK for you?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To re-license it for this purpose is ok for me, I'll ask Stefan later  
>>> today who  
>>>> was starting on it before me (and added the License initially).
>>>> Thanks for pushing that forward Luca!  
>>>
>>> Ok with me, too.
>>>
>>> -Stefan  
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> The script should detect and favor vfio over igb_uio.
> The script won't work right with Mellanox driver
> and it won't work right on Azure.
> 

Is this a nack? How to proceed on this one?
The patch is in backlog for two years now, keeping it as it is won't help.
The options I can think of:
1- Get is with current support and add missing ones later
2- Reject it completely
3- Mark as change request and keep continue discussion with new version

Thanks,
ferruh