[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release notes for default KNI carries status

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Mon Nov 5 19:21:50 CET 2018


On 11/5/2018 6:12 PM, Dan Gora wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:28 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Commit 89397a01ce4a ("kni: set default carrier state of interface")
>> changes the KNI interface default carrier status. Which prevents traffic
>> flow by default and may break some existing usage / testing.
>>
>> Document this behavior change in release notes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 
> Sorry about this.. I guess I should have done this with the patch series...
> 
> The changes here don't include the new module parameter to the KNI
> kernel module.  I'll send a new release note patch in a few minutes
> which hopefully covers everything.  I guess the test plan
> documentation needs to be updated as well, but I don't know where
> those documents live.  Are they separate from the main DPDK source?

There is no test plan documentation within dpdk repo. There is DTS (dpdk test
suit) in a separate repo [1], which needs to be updated, and indeed this patch
is to point them the change because existing test is failing after changes...

[1]
https://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/


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