Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce removal of interactive setup script

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

06/08/2020 18:56, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:25:23 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > 06/08/2020 18:23, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > On Thu,  6 Aug 2020 16:51:50 +0200
> > > Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Environment configuration is the responsibility of distributions
> > > > or upper-level frameworks.
> > > > DPDK focus on documenting the requirements and some recommendations.
> > > > If some specific parts are complex, they can deserve some scripts.
> > > > 
> > > > Maintaining a good adaptative deployment setup is a project by itself.
> > > > Anyway this script was interactive, useful only for experimenters.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > > Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > v2: suggest replacing with more specific scripts
> > > > ---
> > > > +* dpdk-setup.sh: This old script relies on deprecated stuff, and especially
> > > > +  ``make``. Given environments are too much variables for such a simple script,
> > > > +  it will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
> > > > +  Some useful parts may be converted into specific scripts.  
> > > 
> > > Do you want to add a nag at startup of dpdk-setup.sh in 20.08?
> > > Users don't always read the deprecation notices.  
> > 
> > Yes we could do that if this deprecation is accepted (missing an ack).
> 
> Never liked dpdk-setup.sh anyway

Me too

> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>

Applied