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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/kni: add KNI PMD
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2016-09-08 10:25, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-09-06 11:33, Ferruh Yigit:
> > > Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use.
> > > 
> > > KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the
> > > Linux networking stack.
> > 
> > Good move!
> > Why not deprecate librte_kni and move all the code in the PMD later?
> 
> +1 to this plan. However, I don't think it all needs to be done in one patchset,
> though, does it?

I think the deprecation notice must be in this patchset along with some
__rte_deprecated in front of librte_kni functions.
Then the move of the library in the PMD could be done in the next release.