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 7ADF9A0550; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 02:41:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D5F40689; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 02:41:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from szxga08-in.huawei.com (szxga08-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.255]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2B640220 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 02:41:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dggpeml500024.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga08-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4LJQGV0Q6Hz1K9Sh; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:39:46 +0800 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.67.100.224) by dggpeml500024.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.10) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:41:35 +0800 Subject: Re: Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-01 To: Olivier Matz , References: From: fengchengwen CC: Thomas Monjalon , Ferruh Yigit , "lihuisong@huawei.com" Message-ID: <3be02bac-9f7c-6e8d-e32c-95634ad2a248@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:41:35 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.67.100.224] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems705-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.182) To dggpeml500024.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.10) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected 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 [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. > > . >