Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/netvsc: add documentation

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:25:22 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 4/17/2018 10:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Matching documentation for new netvsc device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/nics/index.rst              |  1 +
> >  doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst             | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst |  6 ++
> >  3 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst  
> 
> Documentation added for network driver but not for bus driver, does it make
> sense to add vmbus doc too?

Not really, vmbus is only useful for one network device.
What did Dpaa2 do?

> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
> > index bc9cdda6af7a..0a7b65d49293 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
> > @@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ New Features
> >  
> >    Linux uevent is supported as backend of this device event notification framework.
> >  
> > +* **Added experimental support for Hyper-V netvsc PMD.**
> > +
> > +  The new experimntal ``netvsc`` poll mode driver provides native support for
> > +  networking on Hyper-V. See the :doc:`../nics/netvsc` nic driver guide
> > +  for more details on this   new driver.
> > +  
> 
> Also there is a "Shared Library Versions" section of the release notes, the
> libraries with public API should be listed here with version information. I can
> see some bus libraries are there.
> 
> If any of the libraries added has public API, should be added into that list.

The vmbus is internal.