On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 07:42:08PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:57:25PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2014-11-13 06:14, Neil Horman: > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:03:18AM -0800, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > 2014-10-08 15:14, Neil Horman: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:57:46PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
<snip> > > > > > > If RedHat is committed for its maintenance, it could integrated in > > > > > > release 1.8. > > > > > > But I'd like it to be renamed as pmd_af_packet (or a better name) > > > > > > instead of > > > > > > pmd_packet. > > > > > > > > > > > John L. is on his way to plumbers at the moment, so is unable to > > > > > comment, but > > > > > I'll try to get a few cycles to change the name of the PMD around. > > > > > And yes, I > > > > > thought that maintenance was implicit. He's the author, of course > > > > > he'll take > > > > > care of it :). And I'll be glad to help > > > > > > > > Do you have time in coming days to rebase and rename this PMD for > > > > inclusion > > > > in 1.8.0 release? > > > > Do you think a sub-tree with pull request model would help you for > > maintenance of this PMD? > > > I think thats a question for John to answer, but IMHO, I don't think the pmd > will have such patch volume that subtrees will be needed. I haven't touched DPDK in a while, and I'm a bit busy... When would you need it for 1.8.0? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville at tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
