On 12/22/2017 2:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
Hi,
22/12/2017 06:57, Hemant Agrawal:
This patch moves the Linux kernel modules code to a common place.
- Separate the kernel module code from user space code.
- The GPL-2.0 licensed code is separated from the BSD-3 licensed userspace
code
What is the benefit of separate things by license?
The separation makes it easy to identify and check the license.
Any patch introducing new file in *non-kern* folders shall not be
GPL-2.0 licensed. Or GPL-2.0 license is allowed only for kern folder.
These modules are Linux modules, so they should be in the linuxapp dir.
This is a cleaner separation w.r.t userspace/kernel space code.
*kern* is a better placefolder for LKMs.
Also eal is not getting overloaded.
linuxapp is part of librte_eal. KNI is not related to EAL, but still
the kni kernel code is added to librte_eal under linuxapp.
There are also some kernel modules in the bsdapp directory.
We can move them as well.
