From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/netvsc: add documentation
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:16:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5afa5b27-a343-840a-4190-378527ec6cfb@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180418090302.7ad48010@xeon-e3>
On 4/18/2018 5:03 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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?
It seems they also only documented the drivers (net, crypto, event).
There is no bus level documentation for any bus, if I am not missing them, not
sure if this is a gap?
>
>>> 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.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-18 16:16 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
2018-04-18 16:16 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
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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