[PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for kni example
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Jul 13 18:13:13 CEST 2022
13/07/2022 11:11, Thomas Monjalon:
> 13/07/2022 10:14, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 04:17:31PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 30/06/2022 18:50, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > +* examples/kni: The ``kni`` kernel module and library are not recommended for use by new applications -
> > > > + other technologies such as virtio-user are recommended instead.
> > > > + Because of this, the example application for kni is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > >
> > > I think it would have been better to give a precise timeline.
> > >
> > I intentionally left it vague in case we decided to defer removal for a
> > release or anything. However, feel free to replace "in a future" release
> > with "in 22.11 release" on apply if you like.
>
> I won't do such change myself, too much critical.
I've sent a new deprecation which updates Ferruh's one,
and squash parts of this one about the example:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220713161047.121805-1-thomas@monjalon.net/
Please review quickly.
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