> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Ravi Kerur <rkerur at gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > wrote: > > > 2015-01-09 04:41, Ravi Kerur: > > > Thomas, > > > > > > Please let me know how I can move forward on this. If i confine changes > > in > > > e1000/ directory to e1000_osdep.h file only and the rest in PMD will that > > > work? The reason I ask is because of following comment in README file. > > > > > > ... > > > Few changes to the original FreeBSD sources were made to: > > > - Adopt it for PMD usage mode: > > > e1000_osdep.c > > > e1000_osdep.h > > > ... > > > > This is an Intel driver so you should ask to the responsible of this code > > at Intel. > > The problem is that there is not really an identified responsible for this > > driver. > > > > The rule is to not change the base driver, even osdep files. > > But it would be better to have an exception here. > > > > > > PS: please avoid top-posting. > > > > <rk> Please let me know who is the contact person from Intel so I can add > him/her to "To" list when I send the patch or Should I contact Jim St Leger > and ask him about this?
We're looking into this, but don't have a definitive answer yet. Somebody from Intel will reply as soon as we've confirmed whether the change you proposed is OK or not. Tim
