Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-01

[fengchengwen]

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> 
> 4) Removal of KNI
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> 
> There is no more maintainer for KNI.
> 
> A progressive removal proposal was made:
> - add a message at runtime and/or compilation to announce deprecation
> - remove KNI example after 22.11
> - remove lib + kmod from main repo for 23.11

We still use KNI in some business scenarios, and we want to maintain it in this case.

I recommend Huisong Li (lihuisong at huawei.com) as the new maintainer of the KNI.

He has been involved in the community for several years and submitted some
bugfix patches of KNI.

> 
> Bruce recently submitted a doc patchset to explain how to replace
> it by virtio-user:
> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23218
> 
> The status of pending patches is not obvious. Until now, it was not
> announced that new patches won't be integrated. Thomas will open the
> discussion.
> 
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