[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Native uio-based PMD for Mellanox ConnectX-3 devices

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-07-06 22:28, leeopop:
> This is a native UIO-based PMD for Mellanox ConnectX-3 devices.
> It uses a persistent memory library in order to provide a persistent
> scartch area for the mlx4 HCA driver.

What is the benefit of this UIO approach compared to the OFED based driver?

> We release the driver itself under BSD license, but to use it for
> commercial products, you may have to re-implement the separated GPL sources.

The GPL sources are not really separated.
The DPDK libraries must be BSD-licensed.

> The GPL affected source codes reside in the mlnx_uio/kernel directory.

It seems that a large part of the GPL driver was also copied in mlnx_uio/mlnx/.

Given that you are dropping a huge GPL codebase (whose you don't own the copyright)
in a BSD library, and that you didn't give your real name in the signed-off line,
it is NACK.