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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:44:11 +0100
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2017-02-09 17:40, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 2/9/2017 4:06 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> > This ABI changes to remove iomem and ioport mapping in 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.
> > 
> > Then it has been pointed out by Stephen Hemminger that it has
> > backward compatibility issue: cannot run old version DPDK on
> > modified igb_uio.
> > 
> > However, we still have not figure out a new way to fix this bug
> > without this change. Let's postpone this deprecation announcement
> > in case this change cannot be avoided.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3bac1dbc1ed ("doc: announce iomem and ioport removal from igb_uio")
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > Suggested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Applied, thanks

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