From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" Subject: Re: BUG - KNI broken in 4.2 kernel Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:58:12 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20150826171516.7160bcb2@urahara> <2977472.7tFezkZAUv@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Thomas Monjalon , Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582F0567E for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:58:26 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <2977472.7tFezkZAUv@xps13> Content-Language: en-US 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" Hi Thomas, Stephen > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:42 AM > To: Stephen Hemminger > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] BUG - KNI broken in 4.2 kernel >=20 > 2015-08-26 17:15, Stephen Hemminger: > > The network device ops handles changed again. > > > > Does KNI really need to keep yet another copy of the Intel driver code. > > There already are 4 versions: > > 1. Out-of tree base driver > > 2. In-kernel mainline Linux driver > > 3. DPDK driver > > 4. KNI DPDK driver >=20 > You forgot the BSD drivers and probably others. >=20 > > No wonder they can't stay in sync. >=20 > A patch to remove igb/ixgbe drivers from KNI would be welcome. I have a patch ready to submit, I was just waiting for the kernel 4.2 to be= released. I will send the patch anyway, as the kernel is almost stable now (RC8),=20 so DPDK will not be broken when kernel is released. Pablo