The out-of-tree kernel code must be avoided.
Moreover there is no good reason to keep this legacy feature
which is only partially supported.
As described earlier in this plan:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043606.html
it will help to keep PCI ids in PMD code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index f502f86..9cadf6a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -41,3 +41,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
* The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and
will be removed in 16.11.
It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.
+
+* The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11.
+ It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe.
+ It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel
+ code to be duplicated in this kernel module.
+ Removing this partial support will help to restrict the PCI id definitions
+ to the PMD code.
--
2.7.0
