From: "Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
To: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for kni example
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 02:17:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN6PR11MB350444638C51A97E8DD1FCEE9CBD9@SN6PR11MB3504.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220630165031.79183-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 12:51 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for kni example
>
> As agreed by DPDK Technical Board, the KNI example app is due to be
> removed from the repository to discourage use in future projects, given
> that better alternatives exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 4e5b23c53d..ee36fc684d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -125,3 +125,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
> applications should be updated to use the ``dmadev`` library instead,
> with the underlying HW-functionality being provided by the ``ioat`` or
> ``idxd`` dma drivers
> +
> +* examples/kni: The ``kni`` kernel module and library are not recommended
> for use by new applications -
> + other technologies such as virtio-user are recommended instead.
> + Because of this, the example application for kni is deprecated and will
> be removed in a future release.
> --
> 2.34.1
Acked-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-01 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-30 16:50 Bruce Richardson
2022-07-01 2:17 ` Xia, Chenbo [this message]
2022-07-01 8:18 ` David Marchand
2022-07-12 11:50 ` Jerin Jacob
2022-07-12 14:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 5:52 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2022-07-13 8:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-13 9:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-13 16:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
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