Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2022-06-01

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:41:35 +0800
fengchengwen <fengchengwen at huawei.com> wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > 4) Removal of KNI
> > -----------------
> > 
> > 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.


Why?

> 
> 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.

KNI has several unfixable architectural issues.
It would never pass a full upstream kernel review.

I hope you realize the security impacts of this.