Announce the KNI kernel module move to out of dpdk repo and announce long term plan to deprecate the KNI.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> --- Cc: Olivier Matz Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> Cc: David Marchand David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Cc: Elad Nachman <ela...@gmail.com> Cc: Igor Ryzhov <iryz...@nfware.com> Cc: Dan Gora <d...@adax.com> Dates are not discussed before, the patch aims to trigger a discussion for the dates. --- doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst | 2 ++ doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst index f5a8b7c0782c..d1c5ccd0851d 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Kernel NIC Interface ==================== .. Note:: + KNI kernel module will be moved from main git repository to `dpdk-kmods <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/>`_ repository. + There is a long term plan to deprecate the KNI. See :doc:`../rel_notes/deprecation` :ref:`virtio_user_as_exceptional_path` alternative is the preferred way for interfacing with the Linux network stack as it is an in-kernel solution and diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 2262b8de6093..f20852504319 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Deprecation Notices in the header will not be considered as ABI anymore. This change is inspired by the RFC https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=17176. +* kni: KNI kernel module will be moved to `dpdk-kmods <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/>`_ + repository by the `DPDK technical board decision + <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-January/197077.html>`_, on v22.11. +* kni: will be depreciated, will remove all kni lib, kernel module and example code + on v23.11. + * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this -- 2.31.1
