net/tap: add TUN/TAP device PMD
authorKeith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:38:38 +0000 (08:38 -0600)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:40:50 +0000 (19:40 +0100)
commit02f96a0a82d143ca0bf99eb4580996d6e36ff96f
treedfd66feeb43c52c1f3e39fd1ff3f9f4513724ecd
parent5e823a451261ed1d2277df7ea1436f969f12274e
net/tap: add TUN/TAP device PMD

The PMD allows for DPDK and the host to communicate using a raw
device interface on the host and in the DPDK application. The device
created is a Tap device with a L2 packet header.

Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aws Ismail <aismail@ciena.com>
Tested-by: Vasily Philipov <vasilyf@mellanox.com>
MAINTAINERS
config/common_base
config/common_linuxapp
doc/guides/nics/index.rst
doc/guides/nics/tap.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/Makefile
drivers/net/tap/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/tap/rte_pmd_tap_version.map [new file with mode: 0644]
mk/rte.app.mk