[dpdk-dev] 2.3 Roadmap

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Tue Dec 1 15:58:08 CET 2015


On 12/01/2015 04:48 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
> On 01/12/2015 15:27, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> The problem with that (unless I'm missing something here) is that KNI
>> requires using out-of-tree kernel modules which makes it pretty much a
>> non-option for distros.
>
> It works fine with some distros. I do not think it should be an argument.

Its not a question of *working*, its that out-of-tree kernel modules are 
considered unsupportable by the kernel people. So relying on KNI would 
make the otherwise important and desireable tcpdump feature non-existent 
on at least Fedora and RHEL where such modules are practically outright 
banned by distro policies.

	- Panu -


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