[dpdk-dev] BUG - KNI broken in 4.2 kernel

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Aug 27 10:41:59 CEST 2015


2015-08-26 17:15, Stephen Hemminger:
> The network device ops handles changed again.
> 
> Does KNI really need to keep yet another copy of the Intel driver code.
> There already are 4 versions:
>   1. Out-of tree base driver
>   2. In-kernel mainline Linux driver
>   3. DPDK driver
>   4. KNI DPDK driver

You forgot the BSD drivers and probably others.

> No wonder they can't stay in sync.

A patch to remove igb/ixgbe drivers from KNI would be welcome.


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