From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F90942FAA; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:12:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53E342670; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:12:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-pl1-f175.google.com (mail-pl1-f175.google.com [209.85.214.175]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAB94161A for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:12:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pl1-f175.google.com with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-1bc0d39b52cso9782155ad.2 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:12:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20221208.gappssmtp.com; s=20221208; t=1690837941; x=1691442741; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=QvKxIlRGzumUD8N2i8uEumOedM9Uhc2OV1KAFD1ECqE=; b=kGougX+wJpp7kdJ44QDYYo1WbGOyPM8Yb3/XrSSwwQGh9OnaFHKi+aH0deqCcBsLjP oPtupbISxCzFmEZ08kzrlh4uI1QQkh4xSrdJD88wLaVP0oGwJYI8FEypMYc6D74Nk7NC rsy+F3ytvxOi1y8b/dYb4oXEzm8ALydP3sckWUdPfNRaclcbJGxDHrBglIsEzsdP4iDT CxerTIewAyF2NMGdB4EgH2KwO8Afkp/d3yyJLl07EqMfwxWGbAIcyvI6p73lHQcBZhBM A6swLMKCS2Soe7wDqJ5jWE+BpCupW5wumrwmLwtQ0hjDlCw1uW4VYejQKzyqaa7iOv0j kZ4Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1690837941; x=1691442741; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=QvKxIlRGzumUD8N2i8uEumOedM9Uhc2OV1KAFD1ECqE=; b=km7RasrN1EUkix2V+Lb7wKcLamLajSgu5NK4a3BZs0Pv3dMyW+qAVCmi5JxhyZqkD8 ewLU2JWO9eqCCKUEzhgyAsxNfMiv2xMEjSpMFK5od5bfs0aGKX6aylv7t7kxEknjhDmP vYkDG9xn04smIwHt1QZGHU7V6QLxCrsY7Cajt5ySS1NGu4PRPhgmNzbYiLzMNUjaRkyj sYWwckFU4LuQ+oDE6eETpg8Em+YlGeFucFb0doy5Q3MtVkcYja/BnYG78uOdXKqUFBuC BmdUFl9e966oN5U9YyqTiKBl/j8k8eZtRa5b2fEOQWS/+k9n24TlKAEmmLQ2IbNVBHGp Rukg== X-Gm-Message-State: ABy/qLYtykSGXPWAxFCW/QdhpPjVQUZJDddnDRx6e9U8wl2K6Zy5+/tF JXm4mSRlVmxQf9RBfgDiywPCWQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APBJJlF/j/zpAP1RkV4V3byunJ7Nxu1Ewt+owgdl/yTz7+Mg0zjD57ER9CY8kwQldT8n+ewmvFCJIg== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:e804:b0:1b8:3786:3344 with SMTP id u4-20020a170902e80400b001b837863344mr10847372plg.49.1690837941623; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.local (204-195-127-207.wavecable.com. [204.195.127.207]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c17-20020a170903235100b001b8422f1000sm8984021plh.201.2023.07.31.14.12.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:12:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:12:19 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Maxime Coquelin , Chenbo Xia , Anatoly Burakov , Cristian Dumitrescu , Nithin Dabilpuram , Kiran Kumar K , Sunil Kumar Kori , Satha Rao , Bruce Richardson , david.marchand@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kni: remove deprecated kernel network interface Message-ID: <20230731141219.17a80c57@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <2655909.KRxA6XjA2N@thomas> References: <20230729225438.122954-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20230730021206.6381-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20230730101259.433d4067@hermes.local> <2655909.KRxA6XjA2N@thomas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:40:35 +0200 Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2. The OVSrobot is looking into the port library to see the kni symbols. > > But port is marked as deprecated already. > > Perhaps we should just pull out port first? > > No we must support it until it is removed. > You should either disable or remove KNI from the port library. I just removed those calls from port library. One reason that KNI can't be isolated into a separate kmod repo is that it has components such as lib/kni that were being shared in several places like port, examples, and tests.