Re: [PATCH] build: deprecate enable_kmods option

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 3:29 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> With the removal of the kni kernel driver, there are no longer any
> Linux kernel modules in our repository, leaving only modules for FreeBSD
> present. Since:
>
> * BSD has no issues with out-of-tree modules and
> * There are no in-tree equivalents for those modules in BSD
>
> there is no point in building for BSD without those modules.
>
> Therefore, we can remove the enable_kmods option, always building the
> kmods for BSD.
>
> We can also remove the infrastructure for Linux kmods too, since use of
> out-of-tree modules for Linux is not something the DPDK project wants to
> pursue in future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks Bruce.


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David Marchand