From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gaetan Rivet Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: postpone devargs genericisation work Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:10:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20180528161035.3506-1-gaetan.rivet@6wind.com> Cc: Gaetan Rivet To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wr0-f196.google.com (mail-wr0-f196.google.com [209.85.128.196]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39B4F72 for ; Mon, 28 May 2018 18:10:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wr0-f196.google.com with SMTP id v13-v6so9364668wrp.13 for ; Mon, 28 May 2018 09:10:56 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Device querying and declaration has been postponed to 18.08. Additionally, while working on the feature, some changes previously announced won't be enacted. Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 103520cc2..1ce692eac 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -18,13 +18,12 @@ Deprecation Notices - if DPDK is not running as root and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set, path will be set to ``/tmp/dpdk//config`` -* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.05. +* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.08. New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the new scheme of device identification. As such, ``rte_devargs`` device representation will change. - - removal of ``name`` and ``args`` fields. - The enum ``rte_devtype`` was used to identify a bus and will disappear. - Functions previously deprecated will change or disappear: -- 2.11.0