From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce KNI ethtool removal Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:32:14 +0200 Message-ID: <7298712.p7zDOZdSxl@xps13> References: <1469030873-5966-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> <5790EB36.3000604@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org To: Jay Rolette Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com (mail-wm0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D1A5679 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:32:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id i5so39524194wmg.0 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:32:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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" 2016-07-21 13:20, Jay Rolette: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Ferruh Yigit > wrote: > > KNI ethtool is functional and maintained, and it may have users! > > > > Why just removing it, specially without providing an alternative? > > Is is good time to discuss KCP again? > > Yes, my product uses it. Your product uses what? KCP? KNI? KNI ethtool? > Seems like we are back to the same discussion we > had a few months ago about the KNI situation... > > It shouldn't be removed unless there is a replacement, ideally one that > works with the normal Linux tools like every other network device. This ethtool module works only for igb and ixgbe! There is already no replacement for other drivers. Who works on a replacement? > While the code wasn't ready at the time, it was a definite improvement over what > we have with KNI today.