[PATCH 1/2] kni: flag deprecated status at build time

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 4:35 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> To ensure all users are aware of KNI's deprecated status at build time
> we can take the following actions:
>
> 1. disable the library by default. It can be re-enabled by setting
>    disabled_libs to the empty string (or other string not including
>    'kni')
>
> 2. add support for a list of deprecated libs to the lib/meson.build file
>    so the error message for KNI being disabled includes the fact that it
>    is a deprecated library.
>
> 3. for the dependent NIC driver, drivers/net/kni, modify its disabled
>    message to also reference the fact that KNI is disabled.

Let's say I want to re-enable the net/kni driver.
How should I do this?

Passing -Denable_drivers=net/kni results in only getting net/kni.
Passing -Denable_drivers=*/* gives the same result as passing none:
net/kni is disabled because relying on a deprecated lib.

>
> NOTE: This is part of the deprecation process for KNI agreed by the DPDK
> technical board.[1]
>
> [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2022-June/243596.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>


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David Marchand