On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:56:16 +0000 "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang at intel.com> wrote:
> Based on my experience, only one or two users asked for ethtool support, then > we have it. Before that time, we don?t have KNI ethtool support. > I did not mean who uses KNI does not care about it, I mean for those users > who don?t use KNI, they shouldn?t be bothered by the KNI compilation issues. > That?s why I was thinking if we can disable it by default, but not remove it. > ? > Regards, > Helin Can KNI instead use DPDK hooks to provide generic ethtool semantics. That way it would work with all hardware.