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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecation note for renaming vfio symbols for exporting
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:56:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170214032626.GF3131@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486987308-28647-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:31:48PM +0530, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> Some vfio symbols need to be exported outside librte_eal. For that, they
> need to be renamed to rte_* naming convention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index b12d435..092eb2e 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -61,3 +61,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    PMDs that implement the latter.
>    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
> +
> +* Some vfio APIs are planned to be exported outside librte_eal in 17.05.
> +  vfio APIs like ``vfio_setup_device``, ``vfio_get_group_fd`` can be used by
> +  subsystem other than EAL/PCI. For that, these need to be exported symbols.
> +  Such APIs are planned to be renamed according to ``rte_*`` naming convention
> +  and exported from librte_eal.

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-13 12:01 Shreyansh Jain
2017-02-14  0:46 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-02-14  3:26 ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2017-02-14 11:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-02-14 19:18 ` Thomas Monjalon

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