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

[Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>]

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>