[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/9] kni: fixes and cleanups

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Jul 12 19:03:08 CEST 2019


On 6/24/2019 5:47 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> While testing KNI with netvsc, saw lots of places more code
> could be safely removed from KNI kernel driver.
> 
> v6 - more updates to documentation
> v5 - add minimal ethtool, fix checkpath author complaints
> v4 - add more style fixes
> v3 - rebase to current master, add style fix patch
> v2 - get rid of unnecessary padding, combine the unused field patches
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (9):
>   kni: don't need stubs for rx_mode or ioctl
>   kni: use netdev_alloc_skb
>   kni: don't keep stats in kni_net
>   kni: drop unused fields
>   kni: use proper type for kni fifo's
>   kni: return -EFAULT if copy_from_user fails
>   kni: fix style issues
>   kni: add minimal ethtool
>   doc: update KNI documentation

For series,
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Thanks for the cleanup.

I am OK to get the set for rc2, but if we will do this please lets merge this
early so that we can still have time to test and fix any possible issues before rc2.


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