31/03/2020 21:51, Neil Horman:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 07:58:45AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:39:17 +0000
> > Michael Lilja <m...@napatech.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I appreciate the discussion. It would of course be nice if vendors could 
> > > be allowed to use external libraries/drivers and have a DPDK shim but I 
> > > also understand the concern.
> > > 
> > > We have started the movement towards an open source variant of our NICs 
> > > driver so that upstreaming to DPDK (and kernel) will be possible. The 
> > > downside is that not all NICs will be supported, it is simply not worth 
> > > the effort rewriting a legacy codebase.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> > 
> > The downside is that any proprietary requirement means code is untestable by
> > any CI or infrastructure. Therefore it is likely to be broken.
> > 
> 
> This.  This is exactly my concern.  Because the Napatech PMD is really just an
> interface to some proprietary code, no one outside of Napatech will have any
> insight or ability to test (or use) it.

Michael just said above they are writing an open source driver.
Please encourage this great move.


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