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doc: announce API changes to implement the bus model

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The new bus model has been proposed in 17.02 without being used.
The big rework should happen in 17.05.

Suggested-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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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
* The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model.
It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05.
* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.05. 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``.
``eth_driver``. Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from
``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.
* ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function
``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int``