From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for kni example
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:50:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220630165031.79183-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2022-06-30 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-30 16:50 Bruce Richardson [this message]
2022-07-01 2:17 ` Xia, Chenbo
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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