From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce renaming of ethdev library Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:22:21 +0200 Message-ID: <1469550141-24038-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4965D5594 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:22:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id f65so180704003wmi.0 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from XPS13.localdomain (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f187sm2498250wmf.15.2016.07.26.09.22.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:22:32 -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" The right name of ethdev should be dpdk_netdev. However: 1/ We are using rte_ prefix in the code and library names. 2/ The API uses rte_ethdev That's why 16.11 will just have the rte_ prefix prepended to the library filename as every other libraries. 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 f502f86..7a55037 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * The log history is deprecated. It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11. +* The ethdev library file will be renamed from libethdev.* to librte_ethdev.* + in release 16.11 in order to have a more consistent namespace. + * 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 -- 2.7.0