[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecate KNI ethtool support

Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran jerinj at marvell.com
Mon Feb 18 15:42:55 CET 2019


On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 12:30 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> Remove KNI ethtool support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>

> ---
> RFC Patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/49025/
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 1b4fcb7e6..0491eeea1 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -75,3 +75,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  
>  * crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library
> version will be
>    changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0.
> +
> +* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove
> the KNI,
> +  but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by
> default and
> +  can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option.
> +  Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` &
> ``ixgbe``
> +  drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model
> can't be extend
> +  to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain
> kernel modules in DPDK.
> +  As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool`` via ``igb`` &
> ``ixgbe`` anymore.


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