From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Marchand Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce API changes for device objects Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:33:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1460043197-13707-1-git-send-email-david.marchand@6wind.com> Cc: viktorin@rehivetech.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F252BCE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:33:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id v188so60680743wme.1 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:33:22 -0700 (PDT) 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" Following discussions with Jan, here is a deprecation notice to prepare for hotplug and rte_device changes to come in 16.07. Signed-off-by: David Marchand --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 98d5529..d749e5d 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification + mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now + available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments + so that it only cares about hotplugging. + +* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to + integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see + http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html). + ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they + do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it + easier to add new buses later. + * The EAL function pci_config_space_set is deprecated in release 16.04 and will be removed from 16.07. Macros CONFIG_RTE_PCI_CONFIG, CONFIG_RTE_PCI_EXTENDED_TAG and -- 1.9.1