[PATCH v2] kni: remove deprecated kernel network interface

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jul 31 23:12:19 CEST 2023


On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:40:35 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> > 2. The OVSrobot is looking into the port library to see the kni symbols.
> > But port is marked as deprecated already.
> > Perhaps we should just pull out port first?  
> 
> No we must support it until it is removed.
> You should either disable or remove KNI from the port library.

I just removed those calls from port library.

One reason that KNI can't be isolated into a separate kmod repo
is that it has components such as lib/kni that were being shared
in several places like port, examples, and tests.


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