[PATCH v4 1/9] net/cpfl: add json parser for rte flow pattern rules

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:50:42 +0000
"Zhang, Yuying" <yuying.zhang at intel.com> wrote:

> +Rte_flow
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +PMD uses a json file to direct CPF PMD to parse rte_flow tokens into
> +low level hardware resources.
> +
> +- Required Libraries
> +
> +  * json-c (version 0.14+)
> +
> +    * For Ubuntu, it can be installed using `apt install libjson-c-dev`

Other parts of DPDK are using jansson library with equivalent functionality.
Introducing another dependency to DPDK which is duplicate of already used
code just makes life more complicated and difficult for existing users.

Therefore my recommendation is that the patch not be accepted as is.