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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/netvsc: add documentation
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:03:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180418090302.7ad48010@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5bc481b-dbb6-fca2-9c3b-9dfc2bf91cd5@intel.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-18 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 21:53 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Hyper-V Netvsc PMD Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] bus/vmbus: add hyper-v virtual bus support Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:16   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-18 16:01     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] net/netvsc: add hyper-v netvsc network device Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:19   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-18 16:04     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 17:36     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/netvsc: add documentation Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:25   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-18 16:03     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-04-18 16:16       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-19 12:37         ` Hemant Agrawal
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] bus/vmbus and net/netvsc: add meson build support Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Hyper-V Netvsc PMD Ferruh Yigit

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