doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio
authorJianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:06:46 +0000 (16:06 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:49:17 +0000 (11:49 +0100)
commit18aea6b6f8a66f7ea012ba7db84fadbbbd4544c3
treefe0e6ae995fa423397e4f055f17a4b194a275183
parent0ba3870e7559cc68e8fe78b69f9fd5461f708de9
doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio

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>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst