From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: Clarification for eth_driver changes Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:07:02 +0100 Message-ID: <3418950.5t2zjhjnTA@xps13> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Jianbo Liu , David Marchand , Shreyansh Jain , dev@dpdk.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com (mail-wm0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799715583 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:07:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id a197so360772930wmd.0 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:07:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Hi Stephen, 2016-11-10 02:51, Stephen Hemminger: > I also think drv_flags should part of device not PCI. Most of the flags > there like link state support are generic. If it isn't changed for this > release will probably have to break ABI to fully support VMBUS When do you plan to send VMBUS patches? Could you send a deprecation notice for this change? Are you aware of the work started by Shreyansh to have a generic bus model? Could you help in 17.02 timeframe to have a solid bus model? Thanks