[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kernel: remove igb_uio

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 9/7/2020 11:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> As decided in the Technical Board in November 2019,
> the kernel module igb_uio is moved to the dpdk-kmods repository
> in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory.
> 
> Minutes of Technical Board meeting:
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                          |   1 -
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst |   7 -
>  kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild          |   2 -
>  kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h        | 154 -------
>  kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c       | 660 ---------------------------
>  kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build     |  20 -
>  kernel/linux/meson.build             |   2 +-
>  7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 845 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild
>  delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h
>  delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
>  delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3b16d7a4b8..d74bec58e1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ F: doc/guides/linux_gsg/
>  
>  Linux UIO
>  M: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> -F: kernel/linux/igb_uio/
>  F: drivers/bus/pci/linux/*uio*
>  

What do you think to have the new git repo information here as
"T: ..."
To help people looking for the module.

And I think at least 'doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst' should be updated
to document the new home of the kernel module, but there are multiple references
in the documentation to the 'igb_uio', perhaps they should be replaced with
'vfio' too?