config: disable Linux kernel modules by default

Based on the techboard meeting held on 2019-11-06,
It's been decided to disable all kmods by default from v20.02.

http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>

diff --git a/config/common_linux b/config/common_linux
index c5cf3d6..583efad 100644 (file)
--- a/config/common_linux
+++ b/config/common_linux
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_EXEC_ENV_LINUX=y
 CONFIG_RTE_EXEC_ENV_LINUXAPP=y
 
 CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=y
-CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=y
 CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=y
-CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=y
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_KNI=y
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_KNI=y
 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST=y

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst
index a65227e..6b63987 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ Removed Items
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* **Disabled building all the Linux kernel modules by default.**
+
+  In order to remove the build time dependency with Linux kernel,
+  the Technical Board decided to disable all the kernel modules
+  by default from 20.02 version.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------

diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index bc369d0..53dfe13 100644 (file)
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ option('drivers_install_subdir', type: 'string', value: 'dpdk/pmds-<VERSION>',
        description: 'Subdirectory of libdir where to install PMDs. Defaults to using a versioned subdirectory.')
 option('enable_docs', type: 'boolean', value: false,
        description: 'build documentation')
-option('enable_kmods', type: 'boolean', value: true,
+option('enable_kmods', type: 'boolean', value: false,
        description: 'build kernel modules')
 option('examples', type: 'string', value: '',
        description: 'Comma-separated list of examples to build by default')