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From: fengchengwen <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@xilinx.com>,
	"lihuisong@huawei.com" <lihuisong@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-01
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:41:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3be02bac-9f7c-6e8d-e32c-95634ad2a248@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yp9XF9gYVc2ZyZZn@arsenic.home>

[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.

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.

> 
> Bruce recently submitted a doc patchset to explain how to replace
> it by virtio-user:
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23218
> 
> The status of pending patches is not obvious. Until now, it was not
> announced that new patches won't be integrated. Thomas will open the
> discussion.
> 
> .
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-09  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-07 13:48 Olivier Matz
2022-06-09  0:41 ` fengchengwen [this message]
2022-06-09  1:31   ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-06-09  2:07     ` fengchengwen
2022-06-09  2:30       ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-06-30 12:05 ` David Marchand

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