On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 12:30 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > Remove KNI ethtool support. > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> >
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.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.
