From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce KNI ethtool removal Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:07:53 +0200 Message-ID: <1469030873-5966-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: ferruh.yigit@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com (mail-wm0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21CC3777 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f41.google.com with SMTP id q128so62391305wma.1 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:07:56 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided. Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature which is only partially supported. As described earlier in this plan: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043606.html it will help to keep PCI ids in PMD code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index f502f86..9cadf6a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -41,3 +41,10 @@ Deprecation Notices * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. + +* The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11. + It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe. + It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel + code to be duplicated in this kernel module. + Removing this partial support will help to restrict the PCI id definitions + to the PMD code. -- 2.7.0