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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Why haven't NetMap or MegaPipe been merged?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:51:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180214085104.GC11479@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJEMUN-=MKyX7Ufpjm-NxKv8NLPmz4Vm48M9QPD+mjC2KfOFQA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:00:39PM -0500, Demi Obenour wrote:
> Not sure.  The NetMap team at least told me that upstream didn't want their
> code.  This might be because NetMap requires special vendor-provided (but
> still open source, if I understand correctly) drivers for optimum
> performance, or it might be because they use a single codebase to support
> Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD, if I understand correctly.

Well, "special" drivers, as well as a compatibility layer for other
operating systems are a very good reason to not get the code merged into
the kernel.  No subsystem would ever accept such an odd requirement.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-14  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJEMUN-7PqmJEZymszE0rndVePS2CV_NCwHc3RsQG5y3R7HLTQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <CAJEMUN-km774F6P-k2KHLEmQ8XKChL4xOzV9apWo+=e32G1V5A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-12 17:48   ` Why haven't NetMap or MegaPipe been merged? Demi Obenour
2018-02-12 17:55     ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2018-02-12 19:21     ` Greg KH
2018-02-13 18:00       ` Demi Obenour
2018-02-14  8:51         ` Greg KH [this message]

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