From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ivshmem support removal Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:35:46 +0200 Message-ID: <1469032546-6256-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: anatoly.burakov@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com (mail-wm0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7AE377C for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:35:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f50.google.com with SMTP id o80so77246293wme.1 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:35:53 -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" There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html - Qemu patch upstreamed - IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver - No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated by EAL As nobody seems interested, it is time to remove this code which makes EAL improvements harder. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9cadf6a..1ef8460 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Deprecation Notices will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. +* The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) will be removed + in 16.11 because it has some design issues which are not planned to be fixed. + * The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11. It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe. It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel -- 2.7.0