From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Rolette Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:33:25 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1453911849-16562-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <56D420E5.9010802@intel.com> <56D42462.3020905@scylladb.com> <1945473.Tiatd2m80T@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: DPDK , Avi Kivity To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: Received: from mail-vk0-f54.google.com (mail-vk0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B336CB6 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:33:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-vk0-f54.google.com with SMTP id e185so135157305vkb.1 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:33:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1945473.Tiatd2m80T@xps13> 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 Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi, > I totally agree with Avi's comments. > This topic is really important for the future of DPDK. > So I think we must give some time to continue the discussion > and have netdev involved in the choices done. > As a consequence, these series should not be merged in the release 16.04. > Thanks for continuing the work. > I know you guys are very interested in getting rid of the out-of-tree drivers, but please do not block incremental improvements to DPDK in the meantime. Ferruh's patch improves the usability of KNI. Don't throw out good and useful enhancements just because it isn't where you want to be in the end. I'd like to see these be merged. Jay