From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com (mail-wm0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21CC3777 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f41.google.com with SMTP id q128so62391305wma.1 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:07:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=XMWrer+YVMxhM9o7fhyMgo3N7TOOD5RF/Boc1SYnn7Y=; b=budBbUxPWaMPjsgQpebuprdhb8M5xVH+Y2I0vOrfoORkAePF5m4zJpzmjxJrZ2Hv+M TP/CHdq81AhbipxEC0YHqQAT7kwsM0NTUvqzbM0HjtTAWqXw5D7Pcobd8+pJ4P9hAcwS fKfWsBr6zB6jAJEn6clnqca1jXEQKbq+WFncPr3XBonYXPViEqTX2WPzNvcjanEBhKiX fkE0UUXZdHZcVU3sk8penGHCIUELaCQfuLqEbvFN/ItTs3J4UDC+W6g7r5h3gI0DDtNA w+/iZlbh9ChsWjWKs5gkJU76TW6lyMo7gytY+SzR4MWYfFjBGoPcSXgHmtCB6qnmPKti I8wg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=XMWrer+YVMxhM9o7fhyMgo3N7TOOD5RF/Boc1SYnn7Y=; b=Og371j9299VhUS4FlTpy23ZTYGT/SKOwAYgXZlqzX3EZrqZvc7nVWD+xeCmex3U7ZT OwTZwg4EjjVUJ4XT7bFt/4GFHbkBkaZkGiB/BN4Dlf9eiPBVzjdaXuul1fjk1YLM3Vm9 5l5Sgg9exHhVut3DkDvJTBOhoJCIrPNoY/kTgKObMnc2sG4gzdhXqy98OrLciSUpokbg OWO8DqqMvVlC+XB+xMs6I/Dbi1hkZ/W39lCuM1G94NotUE/b3O3RRllXMiburATzFQwG MeuVua4Ym/E5ClD0c97vCfn332+v10as3nMLE1pETx+3nh4WD8to3llyfZbXsV7Ux5U+ d8GQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJSdzEvb6UfPi+ZTekHqpkC0EZ4kGgMldNzLRi/yqAt8vR1ylsrR20gDoz8gwx7V0z+ X-Received: by 10.194.170.102 with SMTP id al6mr2135158wjc.131.1469030876588; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from XPS13.localdomain (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r13sm5798824wmf.12.2016.07.20.09.07.55 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:07:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: ferruh.yigit@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:07:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1469030873-5966-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce KNI ethtool removal X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:07:57 -0000 The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided. Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature which is only partially supported. As described earlier in this plan: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043606.html it will help to keep PCI ids in PMD code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index f502f86..9cadf6a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -41,3 +41,10 @@ Deprecation Notices * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. + +* The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11. + It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe. + It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel + code to be duplicated in this kernel module. + Removing this partial support will help to restrict the PCI id definitions + to the PMD code. -- 2.7.0