[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: remove ethtool support
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri May 24 18:46:16 CEST 2019
On Fri, 24 May 2019 17:29:22 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>
> Current design requires kernel drivers and they need to be probed by
> Linux up to some level so that they can be usable by DPDK for ethtool
> support, this requires maintaining the Linux drivers in DPDK.
>
> Also ethtool support is limited and hard, if not impossible, to expand
> to other PMDs.
>
> Since KNI ethtool support is not used commonly, if not used at all,
> removing the support for the sake of simplicity and maintenance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
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