Stephen, Tuesday, July 24, 2018 3:51 AM, Stephen Hemminger: > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] net/mlx5: lay groundwork for switch > offloads > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:40:47 +0100 > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > Just to highlight this new PMD level dependency to libmnl. > > > > tap pmd also uses netlink and vdev_netvsc also does nl communication, > > perhaps we can discuss unifying netlink usage around this new library. > > > > > > I am concerned that this won't work on FreeBSD and it will end up farther > behind.
Can you elaborate? What is the reason it will not work?