[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce KNI ethtool removal

[Thomas Monjalon]

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 <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
---
 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