[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 01/15] net/avf/base: add base code for avf PMD

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jan 8 16:27:38 CET 2018


On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 01:06:36 +0000
"Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com> wrote:

> > This function is way to big to be an inline.  
> Thanks for your comments. Let me explain. This is the base code, like what's in ixgbe, i40e ... We have to let it be so it's much easier for us to update it the next time. That's why the code style is a little different. And also some checkpatch problem not handled. 
> We have had some discussion about the copyright license here and internally. But unfortunately we don't achieve a conclusion internally so we have to keep the long license now and may change it later.


If you have to have base code then put it in a subdirectory base/
that way reviewers and maintainers can separate DPDK part from ugly stuff.


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