On Fri, 24 May 2019 17:29:22 +0100 Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>

