[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kernel: remove igb_uio

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Sep 8 00:50:49 CEST 2020


As decided in the Technical Board in November 2019,
the kernel module igb_uio is moved to the dpdk-kmods repository
in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory.

Minutes of Technical Board meeting:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
---
 MAINTAINERS                          |   1 -
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst |   7 -
 kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild          |   2 -
 kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h        | 154 -------
 kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c       | 660 ---------------------------
 kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build     |  20 -
 kernel/linux/meson.build             |   2 +-
 7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 845 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild
 delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h
 delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
 delete mode 100644 kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3b16d7a4b8..d74bec58e1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ F: doc/guides/linux_gsg/
 
 Linux UIO
 M: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
-F: kernel/linux/igb_uio/
 F: drivers/bus/pci/linux/*uio*
 
 Linux VFIO
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 279eccb04a..6f722ad79d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -96,13 +96,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   used in the place of rte_cio_*mb APIs. The rte_cio_*mb APIs will be
   deprecated in 20.11 release.
 
-* igb_uio: In the view of reducing the kernel dependency from the main tree,
-  as a first step, the Technical Board decided to move ``igb_uio``
-  kernel module to the dpdk-kmods repository in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory
-  in 20.11.
-  Minutes of Technical Board Meeting of `2019-11-06
-  <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html>`_.
-
 * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple
   samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
   used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this
diff --git a/kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild b/kernel/linux/igb_uio/Kbuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ab85c4116..0000000000
diff --git a/kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h b/kernel/linux/igb_uio/compat.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 8dbb896ae1..0000000000
diff --git a/kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c b/kernel/linux/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 039f5a5f63..0000000000
diff --git a/kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build b/kernel/linux/igb_uio/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 80540aecee..0000000000
diff --git a/kernel/linux/meson.build b/kernel/linux/meson.build
index da79df1687..5c864a4653 100644
--- a/kernel/linux/meson.build
+++ b/kernel/linux/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 # Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation
 
-subdirs = ['igb_uio', 'kni']
+subdirs = ['kni']
 
 # if we are cross-compiling we need kernel_dir specified
 if get_option('kernel_dir') == '' and meson.is_cross_build()
-- 
2.28.0



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