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doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio

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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: 3bac1dbc1e ("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>
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Jianfeng Tan 2017-02-09 16:06:46 +00:00 committed by Thomas Monjalon
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
* igb_uio: iomem mapping and sysfs files created for iomem and ioport in
igb_uio will be removed, because we are able to detect these from what Linux
has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
targets release 17.02.
targets release 17.05.
* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.02: ``rte_device``, ``rte_driver`` will be
impacted because of introduction of a new ``rte_bus`` hierarchy. This would