[dpdk-dev] [RFC] kni: remove ethtool support

[Igor Ryzhov]

Hi Ferruh,

Thanks. Should I be a maintainer to ack the patch?

Best regards,
Igor

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:33 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> On 2/6/2019 1:12 PM, Igor Ryzhov wrote:
> > Hi Ferruh,
> >
> > What's the plan with this patch?
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> I just sent a deprecation notice for this:
> https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/50347/
>
> If the deprecation notice approved, requires 3 acks, note will go into
> 19.05
> And later this patch can go in 19.08
>
> Thanks,
> ferruh
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Igor
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:55 PM Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov at nfware.com
> > <mailto:iryzhov at nfware.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Ferruh,
> >
> >     I answered in another thread.
> >
> >     Regarding this patch – I have no objections now.
> >
> >     Best regards,
> >     Igor
> >
> >     On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:17 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com
> >     <mailto:ferruh.yigit at intel.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         On 12/18/2018 9:20 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >         > On 12/18/2018 8:20 AM, Igor Ryzhov wrote:
> >         >> Hi Ferruh,
> >         >>
> >         >> Please, look at my patch http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/48454/
> and
> >         consider
> >         >> rebasing your patch over mine.
> >         >
> >         > Sorry about that, yes I will check it today.
> >
> >         Hi Igor,
> >
> >         I put some comments on your patch.
> >
> >         As far as I can see it also has a target to remove current type
> of ethtool
> >         support, so this RFC should not be a concern to you.
> >         All ethtool support can be removed, when you have an actual
> solution for
> >         driver
> >         independent ethtool support only a little code needs to be added
> back.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         ferruh
> >
> >         >
> >         >>
> >         >> As we discussed with Stephen, KNI needs to supply ethtool_ops
> with
> >         >> .get_link function, to properly support link status.
> >         >> So we should save ethtool_ops and implement .get_link using
> standard
> >         >> ethtool_op_get_link.
> >         >>
> >         >> Best regards,
> >         >> Igor
> >         >
> >         >
> >
>
>