On 2/18/2022 9:30 AM, Yanling Song wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:07:09 +0100
> Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
>> 12/02/2022 15:01, Yanling Song:
>>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:22:10 +0000
>>> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>> On 1/21/2022 9:27 AM, Yanling Song wrote:  
>>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:56:52 +0000
>>>>> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> On 12/30/2021 6:08 AM, Yanling Song wrote:    
>>>>>>> The patchsets introduce SPNIC driver for Ramaxel's SPNxx
>>>>>>> serial NIC cards into DPDK 22.03. Ramaxel Memory Technology
>>>>>>> is a company which supply a lot of electric products:
>>>>>>> storage, communication, PCB... SPNxxx is a serial PCIE
>>>>>>> interface NIC cards: SPN110: 2 PORTs *25G
>>>>>>> SPN120: 4 PORTs *25G
>>>>>>> SPN130: 2 PORTs *100G
>>>>>>>        
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Yanling,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I can see hnic (from Huawei) and this spnic drivers
>>>>>> are alike, what is the relation between these two?  
>>>>>
>>>>> It is hard to create a brand new driver from scratch, so we
>>>>> referenced to hinic driver when developing spnic.  
>>>>
>>>> That is OK, but based on the familiarity of the code you may
>>>> consider keeping the original code Copyright, I didn't
>>>> investigate in that level but cc'ed hinic maintainers for info.
>>>> Also cc'ed Hemant for guidance.  
>>
>> What is the percentage of familiarity in the code?
>>
> Scanned by tools: There are 0.8k similar code.
> 
>>> Sorry for late reponse since it was Spring Festival and I was in
>>> vacation, just back to work.
>>>
>>> Hemant gave the guidance already, but we do not want to keep another
>>> company's copyright in our code.
>>> How should we modify code so that the
>>> code meet DPDK's requirment and can be accepted with our copyright
>>> only?   
>>
>> If you don't want to keep a copyright, don't copy the code.
>>
> Got it. We will modify the code to meet the requirement of community
> and upstream it again. Since the change is great, I'm afraid that the
> new code maybe cannot meet the schedule of 22.03.
> 

Hi Yanling,

What is the status of the driver? Will there be a new version?

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