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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] kni: flag deprecated status at build time
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 16:45:43 +0200
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> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16.35
>=20
> To ensure all users are aware of KNI's deprecated status at build time
> we can take the following actions:
>=20
> 1. disable the library by default. It can be re-enabled by setting
>    disabled_libs to the empty string (or other string not including
>    'kni')
>=20
> 2. add support for a list of deprecated libs to the lib/meson.build
> file
>    so the error message for KNI being disabled includes the fact that
> it
>    is a deprecated library.
>=20
> 3. for the dependent NIC driver, drivers/net/kni, modify its disabled
>    message to also reference the fact that KNI is disabled.
>=20
> NOTE: This is part of the deprecation process for KNI agreed by the
> DPDK
> technical board.[1]
>=20
> [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2022-June/243596.html
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---

Probably not required, but cannot hurt either:

Series-acked-by: Morten Br=F8rup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>