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doc: remove KNI diagrams

PATCH Applied Stephen Hemminger 5 participants 5 messages Aug 14, 2025 – Nov 25, 2025

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PATCH 1/1 doc: remove KNI diagrams

KNI was removed from DPDK but the diagrams in the documentation were left behind.

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 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png | Bin 366308 -> 0 bytes
 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png     | Bin 51088 -> 0 bytes
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#2 lore raw
In reply to Stephen Hemminger
Quoted 11 lines · Stephen Hemminger

KNI was removed from DPDK but the diagrams in the documentation were left behind.

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 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png | Bin 366308 -> 0 bytes
 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png     | Bin 51088 -> 0 bytes
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png
 delete mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png
#3 lore raw
In reply to Stephen Hemminger
Quoted 11 lines · Stephen Hemminger

KNI was removed from DPDK but the diagrams in the documentation were left behind.

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 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png | Bin 366308 -> 0 bytes
 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png     | Bin 51088 -> 0 bytes
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png
 delete mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png

Good catch.

Note that there are more files to remove on the KNI topic (and for other parts of the doc).

$ for file in doc/logo/* doc/guides/*/img/*; do name=$(basename
$file); name=${name%%.*}; git grep -qw $name -- doc/ || { echo $(git
ll -n1 -S $name -- doc/) $file; }; done | sort
0d547ed037 - examples/ipsec-secgw: support configuration file (9 years
ago) <Fan Zhang> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/ipsec_endpoints.svg
207361b350 - examples/exception_path: remove example (6 years ago)
<Bruce Richardson>
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/exception_path_example.svg
428eaeb822 - doc: remove PDF requirements (4 years, 3 months ago)
<Thomas Monjalon> doc/logo/DPDK_logo_horizontal_tag.png
46971b273e - examples/quota-watermark: remove example (6 years ago)
<Ciara Power> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/pipeline_overview.png
46971b273e - examples/quota-watermark: remove example (6 years ago)
<Ciara Power> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/ring_pipeline_perf_setup.png
46971b273e - examples/quota-watermark: remove example (6 years ago)
<Ciara Power> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/threads_pipelines.png
59c51be41c - examples/dpdk-qat: remove app (8 years ago) <Pablo de
Lara> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/quickassist_block_diagram.png
6de0ea50e9 - examples/l3fwd: merge l3fwd-acl example (3 years, 2
months ago) <Sean Morrissey>
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/example_rules.png
aa0d7c2d32 - kni: remove KNI vhost support (8 years ago) <Ferruh
Yigit> doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png
aa0d7c2d32 - kni: remove KNI vhost support (8 years ago) <Ferruh
Yigit> doc/guides/prog_guide/img/vhost_net_arch.png
ab6ebd7020 - examples/load_balancer: remove example (6 years ago)
<Ciara Power> doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/load_bal_app_arch.png
f78c100bc8 - remove KNI (2 years ago) <Stephen Hemminger>
doc/guides/nics/img/host_vm_comms.png
f78c100bc8 - remove KNI (2 years ago) <Stephen Hemminger>
doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kernel_nic_intf.png
f78c100bc8 - remove KNI (2 years ago) <Stephen Hemminger>
doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png
f78c100bc8 - remove KNI (2 years ago) <Stephen Hemminger>
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/kernel_nic.png
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David Marchand
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In reply to Stephen Hemminger

14/08/2025 17:46, Stephen Hemminger:

Quoted 8 lines

KNI was removed from DPDK but the diagrams in the documentation were left behind.

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 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/kni_traffic_flow.png | Bin 366308 -> 0 bytes
 doc/guides/prog_guide/img/pkt_flow_kni.png     | Bin 51088 -> 0 bytes
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.