[PATCH v2] kni: remove deprecated kernel network interface

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Jul 31 23:27:59 CEST 2023


31/07/2023 23:12, Stephen Hemminger:
> 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.

Yes you're right.





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