Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce API changes to implement the bus model

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>]

On 2/13/2017 3:53 PM, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
>> The new bus model has been proposed in 17.02 without being used.
>> The big rework should happen in 17.05.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
>> ---
>>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> index f0b5329..8b66407 100644
>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ Deprecation Notices
>>    has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
>>    targets release 17.05.
>>
>> -* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as
>> +* The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model.
>> +  It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05.
>> +
>> +* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.05. This currently serves as
>>    a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will
>>    provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in
>> -  ``eth_driver``.
>> +  ``eth_driver``. Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from
>> +  ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.
>>
>>  * ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function
>>    ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int``
>> --
>> 2.7.0
>>
>
> Acked-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>