To help encourage use of virtio-user in place of KNI, put a reference to the relevant howto section at the top of the KNI doc.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst index 5248f9622b..e021cc69b6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Kernel NIC Interface ==================== +.. note:: + + For an alternative to KNI, that does not require any out-of-tree Linux kernel modules, + or a custom library, see :ref:`virtio_user_as_exception_path`. + + The DPDK Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) allows userspace applications access to the Linux* control plane. The benefits of using the DPDK KNI are: -- 2.34.1
