From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com, jerinj@marvell.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kernel: remove igb_uio
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:22:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3900165.8lACtmVyZ7@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8665040-50ce-e05a-ab1b-27a2a8f920df@intel.com>
08/09/2020 14:06, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 9/7/2020 11:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > As decided in the Technical Board in November 2019,
> > the kernel module igb_uio is moved to the dpdk-kmods repository
> > in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory.
> >
> > Minutes of Technical Board meeting:
> > https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 1 -
> > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 -
> > kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild | 2 -
> > kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h | 154 -------
> > kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c | 660 ---------------------------
> > kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build | 20 -
> > kernel/linux/meson.build | 2 +-
> > 7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 845 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild
> > delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h
> > delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> > delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 3b16d7a4b8..d74bec58e1 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ F: doc/guides/linux_gsg/
> >
> > Linux UIO
> > M: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > -F: kernel/linux/igb_uio/
> > F: drivers/bus/pci/linux/*uio*
> >
>
> What do you think to have the new git repo information here as
> "T: ..."
> To help people looking for the module.
I don't think we should reference the new home in the file MAINTAINERS
of dpdk.git. But yes, it should be documented. I'll add something in v2.
> And I think at least 'doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst' should be updated
> to document the new home of the kernel module, but there are multiple references
> in the documentation to the 'igb_uio', perhaps they should be replaced with
> 'vfio' too?
As part of this patch, I will document the new home of igb_uio,
but won't change the usage references.
I think moving to VFIO in docs is another patch, and probably multiple.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-11 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 22:50 Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-08 0:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-08 8:25 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-08 9:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-08 9:34 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-09-08 9:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-08 12:06 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-11 12:22 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-09-11 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-11 16:22 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-12 8:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-09-14 9:47 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-24 5:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-10-05 8:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-05 9:11 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-05 9:56 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-10-10 7:23 ` 谢华伟(此时此刻）
2020-10-05 9:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-05 9:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] kernel/linux: " Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-05 10:14 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-10-05 11:14 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-10-06 10:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-06 10:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-06 11:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-06 12:49 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-06 12:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
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