Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce renaming of ethdev library

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

>
> 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 <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
 > ---
 >  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
> --
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>

> 2.7.0