From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FB94AAD for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:33:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jul 2016 08:33:13 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,399,1464678000"; d="scan'208";a="1021365741" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.64]) ([10.237.220.64]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Jul 2016 08:33:12 -0700 To: Thomas Monjalon References: <1469030873-5966-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <5790EB36.3000604@intel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:33:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1469030873-5966-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce KNI ethtool removal X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:33:38 -0000 On 7/20/2016 5:07 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided. > Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature > which is only partially supported. > > As described earlier in this plan: > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043606.html > it will help to keep PCI ids in PMD code. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index f502f86..9cadf6a 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -41,3 +41,10 @@ Deprecation Notices > * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and > will be removed in 16.11. > It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. > + > +* The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11. > + It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe. > + It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel > + code to be duplicated in this kernel module. > + Removing this partial support will help to restrict the PCI id definitions > + to the PMD code. > KNI ethtool is functional and maintained, and it may have users! Why just removing it, specially without providing an alternative? Is is good time to discuss KCP again? Regards, ferruh