From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shreyansh Jain Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation note for rework of PCI in EAL Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:30:42 +0530 Message-ID: References: <1486986909-27597-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , To: Return-path: Received: from NAM01-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2nam01on0054.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.34.54]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0002C4B for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:55:55 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1486986909-27597-1-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 Monday 13 February 2017 05:25 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > EAL PCI layer is planned to be restructured in 17.05 to unlink it from > generic structures like eth_driver, rte_cryptodev_driver, and also move > it into a PCI Bus. > > Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index fbe2fcb..b12d435 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ Deprecation Notices > has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change > targets release 17.05. > > -* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as > - a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will > - provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in > - ``eth_driver``. Just to highlight, above statement was added by me in 16.11. As of now I plan to work on removing rte_pci_driver from eth_driver, rather than removing eth_driver all together (which, probably, was better idea). If someone still wishes to work on its complete removal, we can keep the above. (and probably remove the below). > +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.05 for PCI subsystem. This is to > + unlink EAL dependency on PCI and to move PCI devices to a PCI specific > + bus. > + > +* ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from ``eth_driver`` in 17.05. > + This is to unlink the ethernet driver from PCI dependencies. > + Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` in planned to be removed from > + ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05. > > * In 17.02 ABI changes are planned: the ``rte_eth_dev`` structure will be > extended with new function pointer ``tx_pkt_prepare`` allowing verification >