On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:45:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 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.
Hi Stephen, by this you mean that it's a generic library/kernel driver that acts as a proxy to make calls into the ethdev library, rather than driver-specific calls? If so, that's an idea that should be well worth pursuing. If it's something else you have in mind, please clarify. Thanks, /Bruce
