[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/22] windows/netuio: add netuio driver for Windows

[Omar Cardona]

Hi Naty,
IMHO this is small and sufficiently scoped where history (individual buildable patches) are not necessary.  We'd prefer to avoid that overhead here.

DmitryK, 
Please let us know if otherwise.



-----Original Message-----
From: Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <navasile at linux.microsoft.com> 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 1:26 PM
To: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org; thomas at monjalon.net; haramakr at linux.microsoft.com; Omar Cardona <ocardona at microsoft.com>; pallavi.kadam at intel.com; ranjit.menon at intel.com; Dmitry Malloy (MESHCHANINOV) <dmitrym at microsoft.com>; Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <Narcisa.Vasile at microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] windows/netuio: add netuio driver for Windows

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 11:01:39PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:21:23 -0700, Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile wrote:
> > From: Narcisa Vasile <navasile at microsoft.com>
> > 
> > The NetUIO driver for Windows allows the usermode application to 
> > directly access the hardware
> 
> > and allocates the memory that gets mapped in usermode.
> 
> It doesn't allocate the buffer anymore, does it?
> 
> As far as I understand, you're importing history from dpdk-draft-repo 
> and then changing file layout. Not sure how this is beneficial, 
> especially since there are bugfixes along the way. Or are there legal reasons?
> 
Harini, Omar, please advise if we need to preserve history. If not, I think it's better to just squash all commits and send the netuio code as one patch. In this way, I can easily make sure that this one patch has the right signoff, description, subject formatting etc.

Dmitry, would pushing the netuio code as one patch be ok?

> Please follow the guidelines on commit formatting, in particular:
> 
> * Subject must have a topic ("windows/netuio"?), its length is limited.
> * Description is mandatory and should explain the changes.