From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerin Jacob Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: deprecation note for renaming vfio symbols for exporting Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:56:26 +0530 Message-ID: <20170214032626.GF3131@localhost.localdomain> References: <1486987308-28647-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@dpdk.org, anatoly.burakov@intel.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com To: Shreyansh Jain Return-path: Received: from NAM03-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2nam03on0060.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.42.60]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87669E7 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:26:46 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1486987308-28647-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.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" On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:31:48PM +0530, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > Some vfio symbols need to be exported outside librte_eal. For that, they > need to be renamed to rte_* naming convention. > > Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index b12d435..092eb2e 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -61,3 +61,9 @@ Deprecation Notices > PMDs that implement the latter. > Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most > PMDs have switched to rte_flow. > + > +* Some vfio APIs are planned to be exported outside librte_eal in 17.05. > + vfio APIs like ``vfio_setup_device``, ``vfio_get_group_fd`` can be used by > + subsystem other than EAL/PCI. For that, these need to be exported symbols. > + Such APIs are planned to be renamed according to ``rte_*`` naming convention > + and exported from librte_eal. Acked-by: Jerin Jacob