From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Olivier Matz Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
David Marchand David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Stephen Hemminger Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Elad Nachman <eladv6@gmail.com>, Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov@nfware.com>,
Dan Gora <dg@adax.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: announce KNI deprecation
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:16:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211124171609.3101896-2-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211124171609.3101896-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Announce the KNI kernel module move to out of dpdk repo and announce
long term plan to deprecate the KNI.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
---
Cc: Olivier Matz Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: David Marchand David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Elad Nachman <eladv6@gmail.com>
Cc: Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov@nfware.com>
Cc: Dan Gora <dg@adax.com>
Dates are not discussed before, the patch aims to trigger a discussion
for the dates.
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst | 2 ++
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
index f5a8b7c0782c..d1c5ccd0851d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Kernel NIC Interface
====================
.. Note::
+ KNI kernel module will be moved from main git repository to `dpdk-kmods <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/>`_ repository.
+ There is a long term plan to deprecate the KNI. See :doc:`../rel_notes/deprecation`
:ref:`virtio_user_as_exceptional_path` alternative is the preferred way for
interfacing with the Linux network stack as it is an in-kernel solution and
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 2262b8de6093..f20852504319 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
in the header will not be considered as ABI anymore. This change is inspired
by the RFC https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=17176.
+* kni: KNI kernel module will be moved to `dpdk-kmods <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/>`_
+ repository by the `DPDK technical board decision
+ <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-January/197077.html>`_, on v22.11.
+* kni: will be depreciated, will remove all kni lib, kernel module and example code
+ on v23.11.
+
* lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple
samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this
--
2.31.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-24 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 17:31 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: note KNI alternatives and deprecation plan Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-23 18:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-24 8:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-07-30 12:48 ` Olivier Matz
2021-11-23 10:21 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-20 12:58 ` David Marchand
2021-11-23 10:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-23 12:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: note KNI alternatives Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-23 12:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: announce KNI deprecation Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-24 14:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-24 13:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: note KNI alternatives Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-24 14:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-24 17:16 ` [PATCH v3 " Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-24 17:16 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2022-07-11 14:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: announce KNI deprecation Jerin Jacob
2022-07-13 10:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 11:01 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-13 16:10 ` [PATCH v4] " Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 19:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-15 15:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-14 9:20 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-14 10:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-14 14:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-07-14 15:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-07-15 15:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-14 9:30 ` David Marchand
2021-12-01 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] doc: note KNI alternatives Morten Brørup
2022-11-24 10:31 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-24 11:40 ` [PATCH v5] " Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-24 16:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-11-24 17:08 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-24 17:15 ` [PATCH v6] " Ferruh Yigit
2022-11-26 21:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
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