From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606E3D55E for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:05:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Nov 2016 05:05:14 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,621,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="900360602" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.57]) ([10.237.220.57]) by orsmga003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Nov 2016 05:05:12 -0800 To: David Marchand , Shreyansh Jain References: <1478776678-16328-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Cc: Neil Horman , "dev@dpdk.org" , Thomas Monjalon From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <878e582b-07e3-9bb5-7de9-063b1d76fc95@intel.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:05:11 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API and ABI changes for librte_eal X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:05:15 -0000 On 11/10/2016 3:51 PM, David Marchand wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain >> --- >> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst >> index 1a9e1ae..2af2476 100644 >> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst >> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst >> @@ -35,3 +35,13 @@ Deprecation Notices >> * mempool: The functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated >> and will be removed in 17.02. >> It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions. >> + >> +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.02: ``rte_device``, ``rte_driver`` will be >> + impacted because of introduction of a new ``rte_bus`` hierarchy. This would >> + also impact the way devices are identified by EAL. A bus-device-driver model >> + will be introduced providing a hierarchical view of devices. >> + >> +* ``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``. >> -- >> 2.7.4 >> > > Acked-by: David Marchand Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit