From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shreyansh Jain Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed array Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:08:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20181115130729.1451-1-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Shreyansh Jain To: "dev@dpdk.org" Return-path: Received: from EUR02-HE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr10040.outbound.protection.outlook.com [40.107.1.40]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9963B1D7 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:08:16 +0100 (CET) Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" rte_rawdevs is expected to be deprecated in future releases. This is not expected to be directly used, without API access that is, by any external application or driver. Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain --- This is in sync with discussion in [1] [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/114592.html --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/de= precation.rst index 34b28234c..776b9b245 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed; - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed; - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed. + +* rawdev: ``rte_rawdevs`` is an array containing all registered raw device= s. + Currently this is exposed from the library. Ideally, no application shou= ld + be directly using it. This is expected to be deprecated and made interna= l + in v19.02 or later. --=20 2.17.1