From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferruh Yigit Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:40:58 +0000 Message-ID: <21c3f97a-c13b-2d5b-84cd-4d84a2d23717@intel.com> References: <1485243248-27082-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1486656406-144541-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1486656406-144541-4-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, stephen@networkplumber.org To: Jianfeng Tan , dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCA8FAB6 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:41:01 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1486656406-144541-4-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 2/9/2017 4:06 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote: > This ABI changes to remove iomem and ioport mapping in igb_uio. The > purpose of this changes was to fix a bug: when DPDK app crashes, > those devices by igb_uio are not stopped either DPDK PMD driver or > igb_uio driver. > > Then it has been pointed out by Stephen Hemminger that it has > backward compatibility issue: cannot run old version DPDK on > modified igb_uio. > > However, we still have not figure out a new way to fix this bug > without this change. Let's postpone this deprecation announcement > in case this change cannot be avoided. > > Fixes: 3bac1dbc1ed ("doc: announce iomem and ioport removal from igb_uio") > > Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger > Suggested-by: Ferruh Yigit > Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon > Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit