On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:33:25 -0600 Jay Rolette <rolette at infiniteio.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at > 6wind.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I totally agree with Avi's comments. > > This topic is really important for the future of DPDK. > > So I think we must give some time to continue the discussion > > and have netdev involved in the choices done. > > As a consequence, these series should not be merged in the release 16.04. > > Thanks for continuing the work. > > > > I know you guys are very interested in getting rid of the out-of-tree > drivers, but please do not block incremental improvements to DPDK in the > meantime. Ferruh's patch improves the usability of KNI. Don't throw out > good and useful enhancements just because it isn't where you want to be in > the end. > > I'd like to see these be merged. > > Jay The code is really not ready. I am okay with cooperative development but the current code needs to go into a staging type tree. No compatibility, no ABI guarantees, more of an RFC. Don't want vendors building products with it then screaming when it gets rebuilt/reworked/scrapped.
