Re: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed array

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:08:14 +0000
> From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
> CC: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed
>  array
> x-mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1
> 
> 
> rte_rawdevs is expected to be deprecated in future releases. This is
> not expected to be directly used, without API access that is, by any
> external application or driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>


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

> 
> ---
>  This is in sync with discussion in [1]
>  [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/114592.html
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 34b28234c..776b9b245 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
>    - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
>    - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.
> +
> +* rawdev: ``rte_rawdevs`` is an array containing all registered raw devices.
> +  Currently this is exposed from the library. Ideally, no application should
> +  be directly using it. This is expected to be deprecated and made internal
> +  in v19.02 or later.
> --
> 2.17.1
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