[PATCH] doc: remove Mellanox acquisition explanation

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Jul 16 18:17:12 CEST 2025


On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:56:04 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 16/07/2025 12:37, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:15:16PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:  
> > > Time has passed since Mellanox acquisition by NVIDIA.
> > > No need to explain this anymore.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > > ---  
> > 
> > I wonder if we should include in DPDK a "future_cleanups" doc which
> > describes cleanups that can or should be done at specific points. For
> > example, after a specific release or date, or after we drop support for a
> > compiler or kernel version. After we add a workaround for a particular
> > tooling issue (or other change), it would be nice to have somewhere to
> > record when exactly the workaround can be removed and how/why to do so.  
> 
> It looks very programmatic :)
> Yes why not.
> 
> In this case, there was no clear deadline.
> 
> 

There still are lots of experimental API's to make stable as well.


More information about the dev mailing list