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 765ADA0548; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 03:31:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1834040689; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 03:31:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-pf1-f179.google.com (mail-pf1-f179.google.com [209.85.210.179]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD0C40220 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 03:31:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pf1-f179.google.com with SMTP id bo5so19817193pfb.4 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:31:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Egf0qgo8uajmX5/mqE1EVZ7Kc8q+VKyNOtWYwq7ccAI=; b=PMj8Z1vzU18OYzfqGUZFcsEq21bO3Fw/mjKWpnrYh65DnzlUuqVIysWyBJc9ZTaiQ6 PU1DqT1ggGN4X0uSb4mPfSN7ZMmq+nfEA57cLIcL6+23FXIz3v7IX0xY87zYFOb8gI6d lrSrjIPlAtqwDXF/yPlZx2acJXZbuTanfXbneGO1kBJKj6oz0qG73ZZFOCkBHzYaI65Z B/140CeGygvv1dXn7SGj06iUFRaYyFCryXUgI3Q3Zb12SXjdAemnMzB8YeK2gFagWJks kV9Wg854GJGduxMnsDg0av6iKo1knzGVTD3b29bt8DG63sRFAcT6TwAtQAsbYiOHpK/i Z5tA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Egf0qgo8uajmX5/mqE1EVZ7Kc8q+VKyNOtWYwq7ccAI=; b=6OcjrH89/GYBLL8xzj/RXVUz/0NKuS1U+6pIOVgsBASA0zCB4e2RNRVsf/nI2kIipD Ppo9p1pZ2rviapGleUCYn1i8GsQq6w/GYzBzqzH3ZgrpH8TwjiAIHJdEwryko9PG50WG tzrTkW5IDXxX5UK2HJQ98oZ3jZKeIMxb1CCkn7cGvPJqOYa7JPmZJ2CgoOJV8KXmfljP 3bU/1SiqUljPCIfp6qvhwzhlBCS1/1gqIqKYANPIebfray8oa5Y5gZ8BQbtKsGGs6XMQ 2WYaki3rILlKm/geZn7sFFeC1cey4l7X1g1jYovI3JjEhmiwPjhjShGC3bmwnhlDsUPh pnow== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531SzM/sXbSv60ESiJEhzIPRKIb7jpl1A4d+JRRfXR5SVLY+1Vrb arrYPlH1fTQx3vwF0mk2klFp/Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxSXq1nucwQTzH+RKa7JzpIHBfwQx10uX3HVpLDb0nLe6wrGgcypoq3GEcbawbk5ysnJ8V93Q== X-Received: by 2002:a63:2d0:0:b0:3fd:d5d8:b0bf with SMTP id 199-20020a6302d0000000b003fdd5d8b0bfmr14067692pgc.59.1654738290437; Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.local (204-195-112-199.wavecable.com. [204.195.112.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y1-20020a17090ad0c100b001e2f3831102sm14770538pjw.17.2022.06.08.18.31.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 18:31:27 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: fengchengwen Cc: Olivier Matz , , Thomas Monjalon , Ferruh Yigit , "lihuisong@huawei.com" Subject: Re: Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-01 Message-ID: <20220608183127.45aa5228@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <3be02bac-9f7c-6e8d-e32c-95634ad2a248@huawei.com> References: <3be02bac-9f7c-6e8d-e32c-95634ad2a248@huawei.com> 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 Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:41:35 +0800 fengchengwen wrote: > [snip] > > > > > 4) Removal of KNI > > ----------------- > > > > There is no more maintainer for KNI. > > > > A progressive removal proposal was made: > > - add a message at runtime and/or compilation to announce deprecation > > - remove KNI example after 22.11 > > - remove lib + kmod from main repo for 23.11 > > We still use KNI in some business scenarios, and we want to maintain it in this case. Why? > > I recommend Huisong Li (lihuisong@huawei.com) as the new maintainer of the KNI. > > He has been involved in the community for several years and submitted some > bugfix patches of KNI. KNI has several unfixable architectural issues. It would never pass a full upstream kernel review. I hope you realize the security impacts of this.