Remove KNI ethtool support. Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> --- RFC Patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/49025/ --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 1b4fcb7e6..0491eeea1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -75,3 +75,11 @@ Deprecation Notices * crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0. + +* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove the KNI, + but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by default and + can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option. + Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` + drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model can't be extend + to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain kernel modules in DPDK. + As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool`` via ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` anymore. -- 2.20.1
