[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12] net/tap: new TUN/TAP device PMD

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Dec 13 14:54:14 CET 2016


On 12/12/2016 2:38 PM, Keith Wiles wrote:
> The PMD allows for DPDK and the host to communicate using a raw
> device interface on the host and in the DPDK application. The device
> created is a Tap device with a L2 packet header.
> 
> v12- Fixup minor changes for driver_name and version number
> v11- Add the tap.rst to the nic/index.rst file
> v10- Change the string name used to allow for multiple devices.
> v9 - Fix up the docs to use correct syntax
> v8 - Fix issue with tap_tx_queue_setup() not return zero on success.
> v7 - Reword the comment in common_base and fix the data->name issue
> v6 - fixed the checkpatch issues
> v5 - merge in changes from list review see related emails
>      fixed many minor edits
> v4 - merge with latest driver changes
> v3 - fix includes by removing ifdef for other type besides Linux
>      Fix the copyright notice in the Makefile
> v2 - merge all of the patches into one patch
>      Fix a typo on naming the tap device
>      Update the maintainers list
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles at intel.com>
> ---

    Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
    Tested-by: Aws Ismail <aismail at ciena.com>
    Tested-by: Vasily Philipov <vasilyf at mellanox.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.



More information about the dev mailing list