From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: david.marchand@redhat.com, andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru,
maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, chenbo.xia@intel.com, mdr@ashroe.eu,
ferruh.yigit@xilinx.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com,
jerinj@marvell.com, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] doc: announce KNI deprecation
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:10:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220713161047.121805-1-thomas@monjalon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211124171609.3101896-2-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Announce the deprecation plan for KNI kernel module, library and example.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
Squashed and updated 2 deprecations:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211124171609.3101896-2-ferruh.yigit@intel.com/
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211124171609.3101896-2-ferruh.yigit@intel.com/
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst | 3 +++
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
index e021cc69b6..03b5bca958 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Kernel NIC Interface
.. note::
+ KNI is deprecated and will be removed in future.
+ See :doc:`../rel_notes/deprecation`.
+
For an alternative to KNI, that does not require any out-of-tree Linux kernel modules,
or a custom library, see :ref:`virtio_user_as_exception_path`.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 4e5b23c53d..e54597c591 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ 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: The KNI kernel module and library are not recommended for use by new
+ applications - other technologies such as virtio-user are recommended instead.
+ The KNI kernel module and library will be removed from DPDK 23.11,
+ following the DPDK technical board
+ `decision <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-January/197077.html>`_
+ and `refinement <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2022-June/243596.html>`_.
+ The first steps are to add deprecation warnings
+ and to remove the example application from 22.11.
+
* 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
--
2.36.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-13 16:10 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 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: announce KNI deprecation Ferruh Yigit
2022-07-11 14:47 ` Jerin Jacob
2022-07-13 10:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 11:01 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-13 16:10 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2022-07-13 19:51 ` [PATCH v4] " 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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