From: Jianfeng Tan Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:06:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~4566 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18aea6b6f8a66f7ea012ba7db84fadbbbd4544c3;p=dpdk.git 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 Suggested-by: Ferruh Yigit Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 755dc65c6e..b49e0a0e44 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -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