11/03/2019 17:43, Ferruh Yigit: > On 3/1/2019 8:09 AM, Xiaolong Ye wrote: > > Overview > > ======== > > > > This patchset adds a new PMD driver for AF_XDP which is a proposed > > faster version of AF_PACKET interface in Linux, see below links [1] [2] for > > details of AF_XDP introduction: > > > > AF_XDP roadmap > > ============== > > - AF_XDP is included in upstream kernel since 4.18, and AF_XDP support > > in libbpf has been merged in bpf-next/master. [3] > > And it seems it has been merged into main repo [1], I assume it will be part > of > 5.1, which I guess will be released mid May. > > And we have release on 10 May. Taking into account that libbpf APIs used > extensively, does it mean we can't release af_xdp on 19.05? > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=1cad078842396f0047a796694b6130fc096d97e2
I think the requirement is to have all dependencies upstream, so we avoid releasing a feature not working when dependency is ready. If all is ready in Linux mainline branch, I guess we are fine, are we?
