From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/kni: add KNI PMD Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:38:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1794333.caoKPGO1RT@xps13> References: <1473157994-25101-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <2985356.Pbo0hBOtBI@xps13> <20160908092545.GA37096@bricha3-MOBL3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Bruce Richardson , Ferruh Yigit Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63069360 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2016 11:38:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id w12so24802356wmf.0 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 02:38:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160908092545.GA37096@bricha3-MOBL3> 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" 2016-09-08 10:25, Bruce Richardson: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-09-06 11:33, Ferruh Yigit: > > > Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use. > > > > > > KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the > > > Linux networking stack. > > > > Good move! > > Why not deprecate librte_kni and move all the code in the PMD later? > > +1 to this plan. However, I don't think it all needs to be done in one patchset, > though, does it? I think the deprecation notice must be in this patchset along with some __rte_deprecated in front of librte_kni functions. Then the move of the library in the PMD could be done in the next release.