From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jianfeng Tan Subject: [PATCH 3/3] doc: remove ABI changes in igb_uio Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:34:08 +0000 Message-ID: <1485243248-27082-4-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> References: <1485243248-27082-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, Jianfeng Tan To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339D1293C for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:33:37 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1485243248-27082-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" We announced ABI changes to remove iomem and ioport mapping in igb_uio. But it has potential backward compatibility issue: cannot run old version DPDK on modified igb_uio. The purpose of this changes was to fix a bug: when DPDK app crashes, those devices by igb_uio are not stopped either DPDK PMD driver or igb_uio driver. We need to figure out new way to fix this bug. Fixes: 3bac1dbc1ed ("doc: announce iomem and ioport removal from igb_uio") Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 755dc65..0f039dd 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- -* igb_uio: iomem mapping and sysfs files created for iomem and ioport in - igb_uio will be removed, because we are able to detect these from what Linux - has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change - targets release 17.02. - * ABI/API changes are planned for 17.02: ``rte_device``, ``rte_driver`` will be impacted because of introduction of a new ``rte_bus`` hierarchy. This would also impact the way devices are identified by EAL. A bus-device-driver model -- 2.7.4