Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce kernel driver enum removal

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

04/08/2020 16:44, Gaëtan Rivet:
> On 04/08/20 15:29 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 04:07:52PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > > rte_kernel_driver is only used by the PCI subsystem and has polluted
> > > ethdev for no reason.
> > > Hide it in the PCI bus driver.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > +* pci: The ``rte_kernel_driver`` enum defined in rte_dev.h will be made private
> > > +  to the PCI subsystem as it is used only by the PCI bus driver and PCI
> > > +  drivers.
> > > +  The associated field ``kdrv`` in the ethdev ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
> > > +  will be removed as it gave no useful abstracted information to the
> > > +  applications and had no user (neither internal nor external).
> > 
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks