From c7970afddfb2f06fea587b69cba69006151716fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Marchand Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:33:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce API changes for device objects Following discussions with Jan, here is a deprecation notice to prepare for hotplug and rte_device changes to come in 16.07. Signed-off-by: David Marchand Acked-by: Jan Viktorin Acked-by: Olivier Matz Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9d2270269a..327fc2bf66 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification + mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now + available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments + so that it only cares about hotplugging. + +* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to + integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see + http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html). + ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they + do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it + easier to add new buses later. + * The EAL function pci_config_space_set is deprecated in release 16.04 and will be removed from 16.07. Macros CONFIG_RTE_PCI_CONFIG, CONFIG_RTE_PCI_EXTENDED_TAG and