2016-09-08 10:25, Bruce Richardson: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-09-06 11:33, Ferruh Yigit: > > > Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use. > > > > > > KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the > > > Linux networking stack. > > > > Good move! > > Why not deprecate librte_kni and move all the code in the PMD later? > > +1 to this plan. However, I don't think it all needs to be done in one > patchset, > though, does it?
I think the deprecation notice must be in this patchset along with some __rte_deprecated in front of librte_kni functions. Then the move of the library in the PMD could be done in the next release.