From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferruh Yigit Subject: [PATCH] ethdev: deprecate DEFERRED device state Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:51:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20180824145123.62501-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit , Thomas Monjalon , Andrew Rybchenko , Matan Azrad To: Neil Horman , John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4734CA2 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:52:17 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add a deprecation notice to remove RTE_ETH_DEV_DEFERRED state, but this is mostly a reminder because of a missing target. It doesn't worth to break the ABI because of this change and removal can be done when ethdev ABI version increased. Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit --- Cc: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Andrew Rybchenko Cc: Matan Azrad --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index e2dbee317..9cd12ccd8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -95,3 +95,7 @@ Deprecation Notices This is due to a lack of flexibility and reliance on a type unusable with C++ programs (struct rte_flow_desc). + +* ethdev: remove deprecated RTE_ETH_DEV_DEFERRED device state. + Since this is an enum filed in the middle, removing this field will break + the ABI, so removing postponed to next ethdev ABI version increase. -- 2.17.1