[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module

[Panu Matilainen]

On 02/29/2016 01:35 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 2/29/2016 11:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon 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.
>>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> It is great to have some discussion and feedbacks.
> But I doubt not merging in this release will help to have more discussion.
>
> It is better to have them in this release and let people experiment it,
> this gives more chance to better discussion.
>
> These features are replacement of KNI, and KNI is not intended to be
> removed in this release, so who are using KNI as solution can continue
> to use KNI and can test KCP/KDP, so that we can get more feedbacks.

So make the work available from a separate git repo and make it easy for 
people to experiment with it. Code doesn't have to be in a release for 
the sake of experimenting, and removing code is much harder than not 
adding it in the first place, witness KNI.

	- Panu -