From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4965D5594 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:22:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id f65so180704003wmi.0 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:22:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id; bh=6CFIPXZ4JFLfa8UfGP0AMjnR2aACmd2ynHFewpbifro=; b=qXwrgimyVDTb5hUQ5tJSKyWGLXCJL2HcJiMKFGqaluFq7GZBryz3wRA9GSOlpyQk60 gSvZSGmoBo4tzV8kDeBj2TwyXIDQL6Ebb8OOn0Jo4y2/MrREmgfIhyLaM6W5NZQyvKbu M/f1SndSh9f1cEoAZLaAZQr4dIsrGA175QHRZKB3tKEV9O0a3OK9d32TVNjoop4/FhId RTzOW9LWtPo6JMwCJoAclKAkjKiCbtQNFbiemZSOUc/nhaXB1nof9GQ/Jau0gCvRaVkR F4aY9zNNn4ka0JFmLUXNNuMnk+GbOz9ncBEO/l45BOJbz9rnSdeBGQVXdG/WhKrEnCsw PsMg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id; bh=6CFIPXZ4JFLfa8UfGP0AMjnR2aACmd2ynHFewpbifro=; b=iscF7+jgnwnIVtIHiPfbxXFd27tOJXNPA+ufc11Ejds+AqEHpuM76EmHnANZ5d+Grx K9Co6EOpXCLh1/rs76FXlep/Z8wkYM8U85tOmmYUaRZ/DkV+/oDV2OweqPf//AQ4LYck o6zGL4CivsJU4SqRF2uvG0qTcWcmN9kjDPeagXTv/jGZmrQJf4jB+siPvQx0/FNF1uOU UxP1h27aWivHR4bw8fE17AEU1WVnhpOKQju+rlaOdSztt2IKzZ1rzAa+TfSaDEYcTjqE ieEDR1jOBdcJwxWylVzD0dhSIGE4c07ARnggCUVkf3SBbVXLsOEzg+4T1JRUIO321dYe 9ioA== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkooutiFB0059pX/B5o2Q51R01RvttkG+eSHVBnvjS527acyjAd+d43oB4JEJKKpqw8XCzQ X-Received: by 10.28.107.144 with SMTP id a16mr27830206wmi.75.1469550152781; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from XPS13.localdomain (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f187sm2498250wmf.15.2016.07.26.09.22.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:22:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:22:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1469550141-24038-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce renaming of ethdev library 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: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:22:33 -0000 The right name of ethdev should be dpdk_netdev. However: 1/ We are using rte_ prefix in the code and library names. 2/ The API uses rte_ethdev That's why 16.11 will just have the rte_ prefix prepended to the library filename as every other libraries. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index f502f86..7a55037 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * The log history is deprecated. It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11. +* The ethdev library file will be renamed from libethdev.* to librte_ethdev.* + in release 16.11 in order to have a more consistent namespace. + * The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments -- 2.7.0