[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS remove experimental tag from vdev_netvsc

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:42:07 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> On 9/15/2020 3:03 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Vdev_netvsc has been around for several years. It no longer needs
> > to be marked experimental.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 3b16d7a4b8c8..32db0996181f 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ F: buildtools/options-ibverbs-static.sh
> >  F: doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> >  F: doc/guides/nics/features/mlx5.ini
> >  
> > -Microsoft vdev_netvsc - EXPERIMENTAL
> > +Microsoft vdev_netvsc
> >  M: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> >  F: drivers/net/vdev_netvsc/
> >  F: doc/guides/nics/vdev_netvsc.rst
> >   
> 
> As far as I remember 'vdev_netvsc' was interim solution until 'netvsc'
> was ready. In this patchset 'netvsc' is also becoming mature.
> 
> Wouldn't be easier to keep 'vdev_netvsc' experimental to be able to
> remove it soon?

Let me discuss with Long Li and management.
Maybe replace EXPERIMENTAL with DEPRECATED in 20.11.