Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add deprecation note for rework of PCI in EAL

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2017-02-13 17:30, Shreyansh Jain:
> On Monday 13 February 2017 05:25 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> > EAL PCI layer is planned to be restructured in 17.05 to unlink it from
> > generic structures like eth_driver, rte_cryptodev_driver, and also move
> > it into a PCI Bus.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index fbe2fcb..b12d435 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
> >    targets release 17.05.
> >
> > -* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as
> > -  a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will
> > -  provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in
> > -  ``eth_driver``.
> 
> Just to highlight, above statement was added by me in 16.11.
> As of now I plan to work on removing rte_pci_driver from eth_driver,
> rather than removing eth_driver all together (which, probably, was
> better idea).
> If someone still wishes to work on its complete removal, we can keep
> the above. (and probably remove the below).

Yes I think we should keep the original idea.
I will work on it with Jan Blunck and Stephen Hemminger I think.

> > +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.05 for PCI subsystem. This is to
> > +  unlink EAL dependency on PCI and to move PCI devices to a PCI specific
> > +  bus.
> > +
> > +* ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from ``eth_driver`` in 17.05.
> > +  This is to unlink the ethernet driver from PCI dependencies.
> > +  Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` in planned to be removed from
> > +  ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.

I am going to reword it in a v2.