doc: announce KNI vhost removal

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
index eb16e2e..4f25595 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ This provides flexibility in multiprocess scenarios
 (where the KNI is created in the primary process but the callbacks are handled in the secondary one).
 The constraint is that a single process can register and handle the requests.
 
+.. _kni_vhost_backend-label:
+
 KNI Working as a Kernel vHost Backend
 -------------------------------------
 

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index e843694..813d23a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   has different feature set, meaning functions like ``rte_vhost_feature_disable``
   need be changed. Last, file rte_virtio_net.h will be renamed to rte_vhost.h.
 
+* kni: Remove :ref:`kni_vhost_backend-label` feature (KNI_VHOST) in 17.05 release.
+  :doc:`Vhost Library </prog_guide/vhost_lib>` is currently preferred method for
+  guest - host communication. Just for clarification, this is not to remove KNI
+  or VHOST feature, but KNI_VHOST which is a KNI feature enabled via a compile
+  time option, and disabled by default.
+
 * distributor: library API will be changed to incorporate a burst-oriented
   API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create``
   to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and